With Horizon Mirage application layering and ThinApp VMware has now two options to deploy applications to endpoints. The big difference between both products is that ThinApp is an application virtualization solution and Mirage Application Layering is not. While this is the … Read more →
The short answer: No, ThinApp doesn’t work on Windows RT. The long answer: It depends on the version of Windows the particular tablet is running. The Microsoft Surface RT or Windows tablets like the Dell XPS 10, Lenovo Yoga 11 are sporting … Read more →
Let me first say ThinApp is by absolutely no means a security product, it is an application virtualization product. But ThinApp, as an application virtualization product, certainly can help to make your environment more secure. For example when using ThinApp … Read more →
In my daily life as Consultant for VMware I implement a lot of customer specific scripts using the ThinApp scripting engine and I just thought: Why not share these scripts? The following script can be used if a ThinApp application … Read more →
Together with my friend Sebastian Stein (@BERSFO) from tempero.it we discovered a little problem with the ThinApp Setup Capture. When capturing an application, in our case we captures ACDSee, it may happen that the Setup Capture wizard doesn’t record the … Read more →
Normally the ThinDirect redirection message disappears after a few seconds when a web page got redirected. In some cases the redirection may working properly but the ThinDirect redirection message does not close automatically. Most of the time the reason for … Read more →
My colleague Peter Björk (@thepeb) wrote a very helpful article on how to virtualize Microsoft Visio and Project 2010 while Microsoft Office is locally installed! “While many are virtualizing Microsoft Office 2010 during a Proof Of Concept (POC) most companies … Read more →
A picture is worth a thousand words. We all know that the official support for Windows XP ends on April 8, 2014. Therefore many customers starting to look at ways to migrate their legacy applications from Windows XP to a … Read more →
Most of the times when I talk to our customers they want some functionality in ThinApp which it doesn’t offered out of the box. For example: Allow to run a virtualized application only until a specific date. Update a configuration … Read more →
To check what ThinApp runtime version was used to build a single package you can use a simple command line argument. While this is good enough to check one or two packages it isn’t very practical if you need to check a … Read more →