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btm1045
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Suppress VMware Tools installer Banner

We are distributing VMware Player within our organization (we have signed agreement). Our users are discouraged from downloading software from the Internet. When a user creates a new VM and installs an operating system, there is a banner on the bottom of the VM window that prompts them to install the tools. If the link is clicked, the software is downloaded from the internet.

We have figured out how to host the VMware Tools (windows.iso) and elevate the user's privilege within the VM in order to install the tools. How can we prevent the VMware Tools banner from displaying? Or how can we prevent the tools from being downloaded from the internet? I'd like to be able to configure this setting within the software installation and not have to configure this for each VM that is created because that is not manageable.

Thanks for any ideas you have!

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btm1045
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nevermind

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