I just noticed this excellent guide on deploying ThinApp. I would suggest that anyone that wants to start using ThinApp looks into this guide, I guess it could be considered as a “mini-course” on howto ThinApp an application:
This document provides guidance for customers seeking to package and deploy applications efficiently with VMware ThinApp. It addresses most relevant deployment considerations but does not provide comprehensive detail. Please see the VMware ThinApp User’s Manual for the specifics of implementation and further explanation.
Hey Duncan,
I’ve downloaded the pdf several times using IE and Firefox and tried opening it in the browser and whenever I get past the first several pages a error is thrown up from Acrobat Reader “An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly.” I’m using Acrobat Reader 9 with the latest updates. I also sent the link to a colleague who had the same issues. Just thought you may want to pass it along to the authors so they could recreate the pdf file. Thanks!! -Lane
That’s weird cause it downloads just fine here… I tried it on two different pc’s :-S
Duncan,
I’m looking to pick your brain. Hopefully this is an okay location to do so. I’ve been working to ThinApp (v4.7) MS Office 2010 for some time. I’ve been able to package Office successfully to where it will open without issue as well as activate. I have yet to run it for 30 days so who knows if it would expired, but it says it activates successfully. As far as I can tell it is working properly, no issues on physical machines or regular VM’s. Where I’m having issue is with View. I’m trying to deploy the ThinApp to a Windows 7×86 View pool (v4.5 with plans to update to v5). The app deploys ok, but I recieve an activation error upon opening Word, Excel, etc, and then automatically closes. I’ve done some research and found the App-V deployment kit for Office 2010. I have had this work once or twice, but as soon as I reboot and try again I get the same ‘can’t find activation’ error message and then it closes. I guess I’m confused or I don’t understand where the differences are between a regular VM and a View desktop. The windows logs on the View desktop basically say that it can’t find the Office Protection Platform Service, because it doesn’t exist on the machine. While this is true, it’s also true on the regular VM’s that I’ve tested on and it works just fine on them. I know this is a mouthful, sorry about that. Hope you can help. Thanks