How to deploy VMtools using exe package from vmware in guest os

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How to deploy VMtools using exe package from vmware in guest os

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i’ve had much better luck just building install tasks from the downloaded tools than trying to go through the guest install.

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I use the Windows Software Deployment Wizard to download the .exe to client and then run it with the following;

wait __Download\VMware-tools-10.3.10-12406962-x86_64.exe /s /v /qn REBOOT=R

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For Tools 11 I used this so far:
setup64.exe /s /v "/qn REBOOT=R" /l "C:\Program Files (x86)\BigFix Enterprise\BES Client\__BESData\__Global\SWDDeployData\VMTools11Upgrade.log"

I wanted to use path relevance with “{parent folder of client folder of current site}__Global\SWDDeployData\VMTools11Upgrade.log” but i was erroring out somewhere.

For relevance, I like to use >= for the version:

not exists key whose (value "displayname" of it as string contains "VMware Tools" of it and value "DisplayVersion" of it as string as version >= "11.0.0.14549434" as version) of key "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall" of native registry

(string value of select "Manufacturer from Win32_ComputerSystem" of wmi) contains "VMware"

architecture of operating system is "x86_64"
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