

Now we’ll start the Thinapp Setup Capture and begin with the actual application capture.Click on ThinApp Setup Capture to start the application.ġ0. The Display Name will be displayed each time a Thinapp Applications is launched. Enter your license key for Vmware Thinapp Packager and enter in a License Display Name.

Accept the License Agreement and click Next.ĥ.

Double click on the Vmware Thinapp Enterprise file to start the installation.Ĥ. Note: I will be using VMware-ThinApp-Enterprise-4.6.1-361923.exe in this tutorialġ. Firstly create a base line snapshot so that you can revert to this snapshot at the end of this tutorial. This tutorial is performed on a baseline or SOE desktop image of Windows 7. Ware-viewclient-4.0.1-233023.exe /s /v"/qn VDM_SERVER="" Connection Broker FQDN"" ADDLOCAL=Core"ĬommandLine=%ProgramFilesDir%\VMware\VMware View\Client\bin\wswc.This tutorial will guide you through how to install Vmware Thinapp Packager, in which after we will package Firefox 4 into a Thinapp Package. I created the video below demonstrating the packaging process in full.Īs it is not easy to read the small text in this video I listed here the most important elements of the installation process. It is possible to embed the parameters necessary to connect to your organisation’s connection brokers inside the ThinApp package. Nothing major that an email with instructions or a piece of paper would not solve, but there is a more elegant solution for that.

However, after executing View Client the user would have to know the FQDN for the View Connection Broker and this can be tricky depending on the technical ability of your users. This has all been explained in my previous post. This is specially handy in airport lounges and internet cafes.Īs mentioned, ideally this package should be carried in a USB stick or be available for download from your organisation’s webpage. Recently in my article “ Take your Virtual Desktop anywhere” I discussed the creation of a ThinApp package for VMware View Client to allow portability of Virtual Desktops without requirement to deploy View Client to the computer you or your users are using.
