The options checked are where the tool will scan. On the above screen you have the option to click on Advanced Scan Location You’ll see that the Setup Capture tool will being to launch, this is actually a ThinApp tool thus the VMWare notification over the taskbar
VMWARE THINAPP SERIAL LICENSE KEY
Note: If supporting 32-bit and 64-bit Operating Systems, you should capture your 32-bit applications on a 32-bit virtual machine, not a 64-bit VM.Įnter a valid License Key and the name you wish to appear on the title screen.
VMWARE THINAPP SERIAL WINDOWS
You may also want to disable Windows Updates and any other services which may interfere with captures. Like with all capture tools, you’ll want to setup the capture tool on a Virtual Machine with snapshotting capabilities, this is to ensure you can revert the machine quickly to a clean state after each application created to ensure a consistently clean environment to capture in. I hadn’t used the product in 3 years, when I did use it again pretty much nothing had changed and most disappointing of all, the product could not support 64-bit applications! Well that has changed. VMWare also did not focus much development on ThinApp. Unfortunately, as my opening remarks may have suggested. They have continued on with this notion and have fully embraced App-V which is now integrated. In fact, Citrix released a statement with the tag line along the lines of ‘Use App-V, no, go ahead, really’. XenApp Profiling had a very limited use and also did not receive a whole lot of development focus by Citrix, it was just something that you could use, they never seemed to encourage it’s use. ThinApp now has an void it can fill and climb into second place. This was later reflected by the fact I worked with a few customers who required ThinApp ‘Packaging’ but these were for a very low volume of apps and also for a very low volume of users.įast forward to the present and XenApp Profiling is no more. What I was hearing from peers was that ThinApp was not designed for large Enterprise. It then became the case, that ThinApp seemed to be the third most popular Application Virtualization technology, behind App-V and XenApp Profiling. In my opinion, they also did a great job of encouraging people like me to collaborate and get involved with the Online community. As time went on App-V got ahead of the pack, likely because Microsoft had such a strong presence in the Enterprise already and may have been seen as less of a risk. It was still so ‘bleeding edge’ that it was considered a risky venture with more risk than reward. In fairness, at the same time not very many were embracing App-V either. Enterprise customers were not really adopting this technology. This was something I was interested in and wanted to use. What’s more, some applications I couldn’t capture successfully with App-V, worked with ThinApp, another win!! The VMWare trainer even had an old copy of Doom which he had captured as a ThinApp and could bring with him and run anywhere. It’s isolated just like an App-V application but doesn’t require a client! It seemed great.
VMWARE THINAPP SERIAL PORTABLE
It was the first time I saw this concept of a portable virtual application. At the time I compared it to Softgrid\App-V and it was quite exciting. But is it too little, too late? I first started using ThinApp about 5 years ago. After years of no significant releases VMWare have now released ThinApp 5.0.