In-place update is truly my favorite among update deployment methods. It's a feature that is unique to ThinApp and truly makes the most use of application virtualization. The feature in-place update has been called many things over the years. You will find references using the name integer update or side-by-side update. I personally prefer the name in-place update so that's the name I will use. In-place update is most effective when using the streaming deployment method. When you use streaming as your deployment method, your environment will have only one single instance of the application, represented by the package located on a network share. So for you to update the version deployed you simply have to replace this one single instance with the new updated version. But what happens if the package is in use? When a ThinApp package is launched the file is locked. You cannot delete it or replace it. That's when in-place update comes in handy. In-place update...
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
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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.
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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Application Virtualization
Application Packaging
Deployment of ThinApp Packages
Updating and Tweaking Your ThinApp Project
How to Distribute Updates
Design and Implementation Considerations using ThinApp
Troubleshooting
References
Index
Customer Reviews