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Aaron Black from VMware posted a VMware View and ThinApp Integration Guide on his blog.
“The guide discusses several of the topics covered in the previous posts but brings it all together with some task based scenarios that walk you through initial setup and configuration with screenshots and sample scripts.”
The guide should give answer to the following questions:
- Should I stream all my ThinApp packages from a fileshare or deploy them into the VMs?
- Where you I put my ThinApp packages? On the C:, the User Data Disk, a fileshare?
- How do I manage updates after the packages are in use?
- Will users keep their unique settings like toolbar buttons when running ThinApps from different desktops?
- How do I manage shortcuts and FileTypeAssociations for multi-user VMs?
It’s a straight-forward guide and it describes the different setup tasks between Persistent and non-persistent desktop.
Today I sat next to Alan Renouf (the British guy 
) during the “Managing VMware with Powershell” session at VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes and he pointed me to the Quick Reference Guide he released Monday as a great hand-out for beginners as well as experts. I checked it out and it looks really helpfull!
He created the guide with cooperation of C.Shanklin, S.Herold, L.Dekens and C.Bunch.
Check out the VI Toolkit 1.5 Quick Reference Guide here.
Doug Brown, known for the Methodology in a Box (a 900+ page guide for installing and deploying a successful Citrix environment), has written a new white paper this time on how to get you up and running with VDM, as quick as possible, even if you have never used VDM before. It is downloadable here.
This is what he says him self about writing this guide:
I’ve actually been evaluating and testing VMware’s VDM 2.x solutions since the early beta’s were available. I must admit, I very much liked what I saw in the early beta releases. I feel the beauty of VDM is that it is easy it is to deploy, administer, and use. That being said, while I was evaluating VDM, I thought it might be fun to document how to install, configure, and use it. You know, I wanted to document the exact steps I used to install my VDM 2.1 lab environment. I wanted to create a VDM in a Box!
In other words go and try it yourself.
