How do you determine what patches have been installed on a host over the past year?
You can check the events, something like this
Get-VIEvent -MaxSamples ([int]::MaxValue) |
Where-Object {($_ -is [VMware.Vim.ExtendedEvent] -and $_.FullFormat -match "^com.vmware.vcIntegrity.InstallUpdateComplete")}
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