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ThinApp 4.7 Essentials book – Win your free copy !

December 3rd, 2012

I already mentioned the ThinApp 4.7 Essentials book by Peter Björk in a previous post on this blog, and now thanks to Packt Publishing I can offer 2 copies of the book to the lucky winners of a small competition.

The rules for the competition are straightforward.

How you can win:

To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is come up with a comment to this post highlighting the reason “why you would like to win this book”.

Please note: Only winners residing n the USA and Europe would get a chance to win print copies. Others would be provided with eBook copies.

Duration of the contest & selection of winners:

The contest is valid for 7 days, and is open to everyone. Winners will be selected on the basis of their comment posted.

On Monday December 10th 2012 09:00 CET the comments will be closed.


The winners of the ThinApp 4.7 Essentials book are NiTRo and Michael.
Congratulations !

And since this blog is about PowerShell, the winners were selected as follows:

$comments = "Ed Mason","Giuseppe","Stuart McHugh","Michael",
"Ricky Boone","Patrick","Kevin","Bruce","André Pett",
"SchulieBug","Alex G","Fabian Garcia","ELISABETH Jean Didier",
"Dennis George","NiTRo","Firoze Bhorat","Sean Massey"

$comments | Get-Random -Count 2

Thanks to all participants.

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  1. Sean Massey
    December 10th, 2012 at 05:08 | #1

    I’d like to win this book because it would be a great resource and early Christmas gift for my department. In the last year, we’ve implemented VDI running on VMware View, and we’ve started to experiment with VMware ThinApp in order to thin out our VDI master images. The information in that book would be helpful for troubleshooting the odd issues we’ve encountered when trying to ThinApp uncommon line of business applications that won’t show up on VMware’s website.

  2. Firoze Bhorat
    December 9th, 2012 at 22:44 | #2

    With server virtualisation becoming the norm in the industry, the implementation of app virtualisation is quickly growing.

    I would like to keep ahead or on par with the current trends and this book would definitely give me the required edge.

  3. December 9th, 2012 at 21:03 | #3

    I’d preffer the kindle edition, who needs paper book in a virtualized world ?

  4. Dennis George
    December 8th, 2012 at 16:23 | #4

    As an enterprising 24 year old, trying to change the traditinal IT landscape in north american organizations, I believe knowledge gives you the power to lead. After having successfully virtualized hardware with VMware technologies in production environments.
    Where else to begin learning application virtualization other than “VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials”.

    Cheers to all!

  5. ELISABETH Jean Didier
    December 7th, 2012 at 13:15 | #5

    I want a new desktop with virtualisation. I want learn about VDI and thinapp

  6. Fabian Garcia
    December 6th, 2012 at 15:46 | #6

    I just realized I have a second chance to win! (thanks to @DuncanYB)
    I like to win this book because I want to improve my skills. I already have virtualized some applications using ThinApp, but want to know more about tips, troubleshooting and best practices!

  7. Alex G
    December 6th, 2012 at 12:12 | #7

    Plain and simple: I would like to win this book because I know nothing about ThinApp! Help me learn how to fish and i’ll feed a whole village, I promise!

  8. December 4th, 2012 at 18:57 | #8

    At my employer we’re looking to migrate to a new OS.. Will it be fully virtual? What about the 100+ apps, most of them Win32? Do we virtualize them too? Using what? AppV (i know, it’s cursing in the church [dutch translation]) or ThinApp? We’re already using VMware View, but some real cases could help us convince management to choose ThinApp!

    On the other hand, M$ is pushing us to choose AppV, so Luc, what do i have to choose?

  9. André Pett
    December 3rd, 2012 at 21:45 | #9

    I was already thinking of buying this book. However, if there’s a chance to win it, it’s even better.

  10. Bruce
    December 3rd, 2012 at 18:04 | #10

    $data = Get-Content “VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials”

    foreach ($datum in $data) {
    Get-ChildItem -Recurse -Verbose | New-Item -Path “MyBrain\LongTermMemory” -ItemType “Technical Skills” -Force
    }

    If ($Question -like “*Thinapp*”)
    $Answer = Get-ChildItem “MyBrain\LongTermMemory\VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials” -Filter $Question
    Out-Default -InputObject $Answer

  11. Kevin
    December 3rd, 2012 at 15:10 | #11

    I am trying to make a business case for using ThinApps in my company, and having this book would be a big help in that effort.

  12. Patrick
    December 3rd, 2012 at 15:07 | #12

    This year we moved to a 99% VMware View linked clones environment with all applications installed within the master image.

    Now we’re at the point to take things a step further and virtualize our apllications. Packaging simple applictions is relatively easy, but how about the more complex ones like Office 2010, Autcad Map 3d and ArcGis Desktop? This not so easy as it looks.

    This book could give me insight in the more complex features of ThinApp and hopefully helps us to eleminate the need of installing these complex applications in our master image.

  13. Ricky Boone
    December 3rd, 2012 at 14:42 | #13

    I’m involved in a project to pilot VMware View and ThinApp in our environment, and would like to see as much useful information as possible about virtualizing our various applications.

  14. Michael
    December 3rd, 2012 at 11:33 | #14

    We are using ThinApp in our environment and I would like to know what’s going on inside ThinApp to better understand the tool and to better support our thinapp’ed application.
    We are planning to do even more ThinApp project in 2013.

  15. December 3rd, 2012 at 10:28 | #15

    I’m planning a new desktop roll out soon which will finalily retire Windows XP. I’d like to learn more about VDI and how “ThinApp’ing” application can add value to the solution.

  16. Giuseppe
    December 3rd, 2012 at 10:26 | #16

    Hi,
    I would like to win this book so I can have a better insight in ThinApp and start virtualizing all my apps :)

    Thanks for this contest!

    Giuseppe

  17. Ed Mason
    December 3rd, 2012 at 10:21 | #17

    Thinapp was key to helping my company do it’s biggest in place upgrades in 2011.
    After also meeting Peter this year having his book would greatly help with my understanding of Thinapp to use fully in 2013.

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