Side note – the latest available version on the OSP package repository might be slightly older then on Customer Connect.

VMware OSP package repository (for Windows).The reader is familiar with automatic deployment options for VMware Toolsĭownload latest version of VMware Tools from:.The reader is familiar with Configuration Manager Application Management.The reader has working Configuration Manager site.While Server/Virtualization teams prefer to create and maintain Windows OS templates using their tools of choice, the Desktop/Frontend teams quite often rely on Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr for short) which is a wildly adopted Enterprise Device Management solution with large footprint at a lot of our customers. There are multiple ways to deploy VMware Tools either from vCenter console or from within a VM itself or using 3-d party automation tools. We need to deploy VMware Tools on each Window system running on the ESXi, and also on VMware Workstation or Fusion. In this short blog I want to show one of the possibilities how to deploy VMware Tools on Windows systems, namely using Microsoft Configuration Manager (aka ConfigMgr aka SCCM aka Microsoft Endpoint Manager).

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