Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

thinapp

VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials by Peter Björk!

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About a year ago one of my colleagues reached out with some questions around book publishing. Many people ask me questions around what it takes, hours involved etc etc, and unfortunately many decide it is not the right time. I guess Peter Björk decided it was the right time as he managed to crank out this awesome book within a year. Congrats Peter, awesome work and major achievement!

The book is titled “VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials” and contains everything you need to know about ThinApp, or as the website states:

“VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials” shows you how to deploy ThinApp packages in order to improve the portability, manageability and compatibility of applications by encapsulating them from the underlying operating system on which they are executed.

In this book you will learn about how application virtualization works and how to deploy ThinApp packages. You will learn how to update and tweak ThinApp Projects before distribution. This book will then cover design and implementation considerations for future ThinApp projects.

You can find it on Amazon here: Kindle ($ 23.25) – Paper (54.99). Pick it up!

False positive: AVG Anti-virus and Thinapp

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One of colleagues emailed me this weekend that he had a problem with Thinap’ed application and AVG. My AVG updated this morning and I can confirm the issue. When you run or download an application(virtualized by Thinapp) the applications is marked as Trojan horse Constructor.DER infected. As a work around you can of course  add all your applications as exceptions cause it’s clearly a false positive. (I downloaded a brand new application from thindownload.com to double check.) We are not the only ones that noticed it cause someone opened a thread on the AVG forum. Let’s hope AVG will fix this issue asap.

ThinApp Deployment Guide

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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.