VMware ThinApp online bootcamp
VMware is organizing a six-part bootcamp about ThinApp, VMware’s Application Virtualization solution.
“…we show you how to use, deploy, and optimize VMware ThinApp. The session will include everything from deployment best practices, tips & tricks for performance enhancement, and improving application compatibility. We will be releasing one on demand session each day starting October 31st. At the end of this bootcamp, you’ll understand how to use VMware ThinApp. Register to get a free e-book of all the presentations included in this bootcamp series.”
Starting October 31st, a new video will be released daily:
ThinApp Design Best Practices
- Speaker – Ray Dusseault, VMware
- This session provides an overview real world best practices surrounding the new ThinApp Design Process along with a basic timeline for the ThinApp Plan & Design engagement.
ThinApp Implementation Best Practices
- Speaker – Ray Dusseault, VMware
- This session provides an overview of the latest ThinApp Strategy, methodology and real world Implementation best practices.
ThinApp Performance Enhancing Techniques
- Speaker – Dean Flaming, VMware
- Common tips, rules, basic troubleshooting procedures, and suggestions used to help enhance performance of ThinApp packages, including pre-capture settings, post-capture clean-up, deployment options pros and cons, and environment configurations.
Scripting within ThinApp
- Speaker – Dean Flaming, VMware
- Understanding the basics of scripting within a ThinApp environment including use of the callback functions as timing mechanisms, additional options available by admins, and how to implement a scripted solution within a ThinApp packaged application.
Isolation Modes Explained
- Speaker – Travis Sales, VMware
- Isolation modes are at the heart of the abstraction layer within ThinApp. We will explore their uses and and how to adjustment them for optimal application compatibility.
AppLink Fundamentals
- Speaker – Travis Sales, VMware
- AppLink enables you to package, deploy, and update component pieces separately while keeping the benefits of application virtualization. This session will explore AppLinks use scenarios and uses cases.
Check the VMware Desktop Community website for more information.
VMware ThinApp 4.5: How to upgrade your packages?
A new feature in ThinApp 4.5 is the “relink” utility. With this utility, it is very easy to update all you ThinApp applications to the latest ThinApp version.
The old way:
Install/update ThinApp 4.5. Then rebuild each ThinApp package.
The new way:
Install/update ThinApp 4.5. Then use the relink utility to update your ThinApp applications:
relink.exe “Mozilla Firefox.exe”
The old version will be renamed to .bak. … Continue Reading
Application Virtualization comparison chart September 2009
Finally we are ready to release the updated release of the Application Virtualization comparison chart! In this release we’ve updated all the products to the latest version and we’ve added test-results of application launch-times. We didn’t want the document to contain a lot of text describing what application virtualization is, all the ins and outs of every product in the chart and the complete test-setup and how the tests were performed. We wanted the document to be as short as possible, easy to understand the differences between the solutions and a quick overview what the differences are in launch-times. … Continue Reading
VMware Thinapp 4.0 release date
While I was working on an Application virtualization comparison chart (which will be released next week), I noticed something interesting. In the ThinApp FAQ it is stated that the general availability of VMware ThinApp will be on June 27th 2008. So now you know.
Another thing I’ve read was this:
…it has a very fast product release cycle—about once a month.
This comes from the ThinApp whitepaper. I hope this also means that new features, like a GUI for editing applications, will be released soon. Fortunately, you don’t have to upgrade all your applications when a new ThinApp update is released.
Until the final release, you can read my review here.
