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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

Using VMware Horizon Application Manager


VMware Horizon Application Manager is a universal services broker and workspace. From Version 1.5, Horizon can entitle users to both SaaS (that is, Software as a Service) based applications and ThinApp packages. Horizon supports a user-based entitlement system with device and location awareness. This means you can entitle users to applications but with policies you can define when, from where, and on which device an application can be used. Horizon Application Manager has an agent you can deploy to all your Windows-based clients. With the help of this agent, Horizon can deploy ThinApp packages. It is the Horizon Agent that verifies whether you are entitled, based on policies, to run a certain application. Horizon Agent Version 1.5 supports both streaming and local deployment of ThinApp packages. You can specify which mode the agent should use during installation.

During the installation of Horizon Agent you can decide if ThinApp packages should be...