VMware ThinApp - LiveOnLine! - LQMTA
Introduction
V4.7
This exciting, hands-on, lab intensive course covers new items
added to VMware's newest version of the ThinApp product.
Students will have a 2 full days covering the new features and
components. This two day packed course has students install,
capture, build, take snapshots, understand the ThinApp file system,
work with scripts, and troubleshoot ThinApp, as well as more
advanced features. Our "VMware ThinApp" course is intended for
students with who need to understand packaging and controlling the
end users application environment. It is our intention to take your
existing knowledge base and expand upon that.
Classroom Setup
Each student will work with installing, packaging and
troubleshooting a variety of applications using VMware ThinApp.
Pre-requisites
Major Areas Covered
- New and Major Components
- Terms and Concepts
- Installing ThinApp
- Application Capture Process
- Application Deployment
- Updating and Linking Applications
- Package Parameters
- Snapshots and Project
- The ThinApp File System
- ThinApp Scripts
- Troubleshooting and Monitoring
Course Outline
This course covers items from the following VMware courses.
What's New and major components
- Product History
- Windows 7 Support
- Relink Utility
- The client foot print
- Application Isolation
- 100% user mode execution
- 64 bit support
- 3rd Party application management solutions
- Application sync
- Virtual application
Terms and Concepts
- Application Link
- Application Sync
- Attributes.ini
- Clean machine
- Entry point
- Inventory name
- Isolation mode
- Package.ini
- Snapshot
- Thinreg.exe
- Virtual application
- Virtual registry
Installing ThinApp
- ThinApp requirements
- Recommendations
- Installing ThinApp
- The ThinApp folder and files
Application Capture Process
- Preparing to Capture Applications
- Capturing applications with the setup capture wizard
- Advanced package configuration
- Guidelines for packaging Microsoft Office 2007
The Package.ini file
- Identify and understand the file structure
- The package.ini vs. attributes.ini file
- ThinApp runtime
- ThinApp isolation
- ThinApp file and protocol associations
- ThinApp Build output
- ThinApp permissions
- ThinApp object and dll files
- ThinApp File storage
- ThinApp Process and services
- ThinApp sizes
- ThinApp logging
- ThinApp versions
- ThinApp locals
- ThinApp individual applications
- ThinApp dependent apps and application link
- ThinApp updating applications
- ThinApp MSI files
- ThinApp storage and inventory names
Troubleshooting and Monitoring
- The ThinApp file system
- ThinApp scripts
- ThinApp command line