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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials

By : Peter Bjork
Book Image

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

Designing for a terminal server/Citrix XenApp implementation


Using ThinApp in a terminal server and Citrix environment is more or less identical to running ThinApp in VDI, from a design point of view. The few considerations you have to make for VDI is true for terminal servers (TS) as well. One thing that might complicate a TS implementation is the fact that you are often running it on a 64-bit operating system. You may have to tweak your packages to support a 64-bit environment. If you are using Citrix XenApp, you publish a ThinApp package in the same way you would publish any other application on your XenApp server. When you are asked to browse to your application, simply paste the path to your package's entry point on the network share and you're good to go.

I definitely recommend streaming ThinApp packages onto your terminal server/XenApp. In that case, management and support are so much easier. You can place the network share on the same high-speed backbone as your TS environment...