Using Microsoft Scheduler in Windows 10 to Schedule VMware Workstation Updates

[drnshaw]

I'm currently running VMware Workstation 15.5.2.  I live in a rural area so use satellite.  I do my major downloads during the night (2:00 - 8:00 AM) so I have prime time minutes available throughout the month. I try to setup my downloads using Windows 10 scheduler.  I had three systems to update to 15.5.2 and I had to set an alarm to get up at 2:00 AM and start the downloads.

Has anyone created a Windows 10 scheduler task to kick off workstation updates at a specific day/time?

In advance, thank you,

Nick.

[drnshaw]

Follow-up: I have found several applications in "Program Files(x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation".  In the "tools-upgraders" directory, there are some applications but these appear to be for upgrading the 'VMware tools'.  Is there an upgrade application specific to upgrading VMware Workstation?  If yes, then I can create a task that calls that application when I receive an update notice.

Again, in advance, thank you,

Nick.

[wila]

Hi,

I'm not aware of a seperate application for checking if there are updates.

You can however check this URL:

https://www.vmware.com/go/getworkstation-win

If it gives a different binary then there's an update.

You could work that out with for example curl (which has a windows variant)

Example:

$ curl -I https://www.vmware.com/go/getworkstation-win
HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Apache
DC-Pool-ID: 98hqz338
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.0
Location: https://download3.vmware.com/software/wkst/file/VMware-workstation-full-15.5.2-15785246.exe
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 22:36:35 GMT
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: myvmware-wwwa-prod=!d9x511awCbrMV3yLatGZPZOY2X6Sa28lgBGT/5D23QnT+MRCrPptlgL9njxeAIpJ3xcCNU7mPjxDbcegLsbF0Cmciw2+EeCzpvmTXtYPmVGrH33AEtQgNJvvYzGwf11le6RC+hQlKfu218Jkxa72Ug+gDpXN5dU=; path=/; Httponly
Set-Cookie: myvmware-www=!I1Vk+mnSGrNB9peLatGZPZOY2X6Sa5Ym7QF25Zhzl5UMdH0uQt2gKL0lfq6mNy9of+JHDJSVhSHu2ctXuL7KQ1K2qOLbZIkpI3rIAmM99kL8k0bpgqgohStjKk6xTfYBXU/9wjLEOYwcMGKKasy71jUDRsvJoO0=; path=/; Httponly; Secure

As you can see the line starting with "Location: " has the actual binary you would download.

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Wil