Yesterday, VMware released ThinApp 4.5 which adds support for new operating systems and additional features. The What’s New document can give you an insight.

Over at the ThinApp blog there was a new article publishes which describes how to map a network drive within a ThinApp packaged application.

Have you ever tried to run the same ThinApp application several times? No? Correct! It will not work. There is a way to do it and you’ll find the solution on the newest ThinApp blog article.

Today VMware also announced a new version of ThinApp. The new maintenance release offers a German and Japanese ThinApp user guide, Journaling support for the virtual registry and resolves several issues with virtualized applications.

The new release of ThinApp (4.0.3) which follows the 4.0.2 release of March 2009 is now ready. It’s a maintenance release and there is no requirement to upgrade existing deployed ThinApp applications but it is recommended to use the version 4.0.3 to package new applications.

The flexibility of VDI can be enhanced when using virtualized applications on the virtual desktops. With VMware ThinApp you can install or stream virtual applications to the virtual desktop when the user needs them. Installing the application means that the ThinApp container will be deployed to the machine in a MSI package. When installing the MSI the application will be registered in the Add/Remove software dialog in the control panel and when configured in the package.ini before, the shortcuts on desktop and start menu will be created and also the …