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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By: Peter Bjork

Overview of this book

VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. "VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials" shows you how to deploy ThinApp packages in order to improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. Application virtualization improves the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed. VMware ThinApp 4.7 is an application virtualization and portable application creator which allows users to package conventional applications so that they are portable. ThinApp eliminates application conflicts, reducing the need and cost of recoding and regression testing. In this book you will learn about how application virtualization works and how to deploy ThinApp packages. You will learn how to update and tweak ThinApp Projects before distribution. This book will then cover design and implementation considerations for future ThinApp projects.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6


ThinApp can virtualize any version of Internet Explorer. Virtualizing Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is a common use case for many companies. If you must migrate to Internet Explorer 8 or you are about to migrate to Windows 7, virtualizing IE6 allows you to continue supporting your legacy web applications. Being able to run multiple versions of IE is a huge benefit. Most versions of Internet Explorer can be installed on Windows XP or Windows 7, and are therefore captured using the normal capturing process of ThinApp. Internet Explorer 6 cannot be captured using the normal process. You could install and capture it on Windows 2000, but that version of IE6 is very different from the one offered on Windows XP. In order to support virtualizing the Windows XP version of Internet Explorer 6, Setup Capture has a template describing necessary registry keys and files. You can capture Internet Explorer 6 by starting your Windows XP virtual machine, patching it to the level...