VMware View and ThinApp

Lessons

• Lesson 1: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Overview - Understanding the Options

  00:15:00
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:00:22
  • What is VDI? 00:01:33
  • Why Should You Use VDI? 00:03:28
  • VDI Network Diagrams 00:04:29
  • Thin Clients 00:01:11
  • VDI vs. Terminal Services 00:01:24
  • The Most Popular VDI Options 00:01:38
  • What We Covered 00:00:51

• Lesson 2: Introduction to VMware View 4

  00:16:26
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:00:41
  • What Does View Offer You? 00:02:12
  • Return on Investment 00:00:51
  • Requirements to Use View 4 00:01:41
  • View 4 Components 00:03:19
  • View 4 Administrator Console and Client Display 00:02:18
  • How to Evaluate and Download View 00:03:17
  • View Resources 00:01:10
  • What We Covered 00:00:55

• Lesson 3: Installing VMware View 4

  00:43:32
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:00:39
  • Planning Your View Infrastructure 00:02:02
  • Advanced View Topics 00:04:48
  • Requirements to Install View Connection Server 00:03:55
  • Installing the View Connection Server 00:06:38
  • Installing View Composer 00:08:37
  • Preparing a Guest OS to be a Virtual Desktop 00:06:44
  • Installing the View Agent 00:05:15
  • Installing the View Client 00:03:23
  • What We Covered 00:01:27

• Lesson 4: Deploying Virtual Desktops with View

  00:13:48
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:00:49
  • Adding Virtual Desktops 00:05:29
  • Assigning Desktop Sources 00:00:45
  • Creating Entitlements for Desktops 00:06:10
  • What We Covered 00:00:33

• Lesson 5: Automated Virtual Desktop Deployment with View Pools

  00:19:27
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:01:35
  • Taking a Snapshot of the Golden Virtual Machine 00:01:14
  • Creating Automated View Pools 00:10:13
  • Giving Entitlements to Users and Groups 00:02:14
  • Testing Pools in the View Client and View Portal 00:03:47
  • What We Covered 00:00:23

• Lesson 6: Adding a Terminal Services Pool in View

  00:12:34
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:00:52
  • Benefits of TS Desktop Pools 00:02:28
  • Adding TS Desktop Pools 00:04:42
  • Entitling TS Pools 00:01:23
  • Testing TS Pools in View Client 00:02:07
  • What We Covered 00:01:00

• Lesson 7: Understanding View Composer Linked Clones

  00:21:44
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:00:38
  • How View Composer Helps You 00:01:05
  • View Composer Replicas 00:02:21
  • Desktop Recomposition 00:01:46
  • Desktop Refresh 00:00:57
  • Upgrading Multiple Desktops to Windows 7 in Under 10 Minutes 00:14:09
  • What We Covered 00:00:45

• Lesson 8: Introduction to ThinApp 4

  00:15:05
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:00:32
  • What is Application Virtualization? 00:03:37
  • How Can ThinApp Help You? 00:04:21
  • What Makes ThinApp Unique? 00:01:03
  • How Does ThinApp Fit in with Other Types of Virtualization? 00:00:37
  • ThinApp Usage Scenarios 00:02:52
  • Four Steps to Virtualizing an Application with ThinApp 00:00:51
  • What We Covered 00:01:08

• Lesson 9: Installing ThinApp

  00:19:02
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:00:28
  • Requirements to Use ThinApp 00:01:57
  • Why You Need a "Pristine OS" 00:01:35
  • What Can and Cannot Be Virtualized 00:03:03
  • Downloading and Installing ThinApp and VMware Workstation 00:04:23
  • Installing ThinApp on the Virtual Machine 00:04:35
  • Taking a Snapshot of the Pristine OS 00:01:21
  • What We Covered 00:01:37

• Lesson 10: Virtualizing Applications with ThinApp

  00:51:26
  Lesson Clips

  • Introduction 00:00:42
  • Four Steps to Virtualizing Office 2007 00:07:04
  • Prescanning the Clean OS 00:04:01
  • Installing and Configuring the Applications 00:05:06
  • Postscanning 00:00:55
  • Building the Package 00:12:17
  • Post-Capture Customization 00:02:35
  • Testing the Application 00:13:00
  • Building a ThinApp Application Library 00:04:41
  • What We Covered 00:01:00