26Jul/104
Issues updating VMware Tools with Update Manager
I recently updated a lab environment to vSphere 4 Update 2 and wanted to upgrade VMware Tools on several VMs at once. I decided to use Update Manager to push out the VMware Tools update, and during the process discovered an issue between Update Manager and newer versions of Windows. I didn't try any of the following with vSphere 4.1.
I remediated a folder of about seven VMs and to my surprise I saw that only a few of them actually updated. The others simply sat there and never updated the tools, rebooted, or did much of anything. Sorting the folder by Guest OS I noticed something - all of the VMs that did not update were running either Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7.

