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I am hitting this, and it's pathetic on VMware's part.


Because I'm required to install windows updates on 2012 before having vmware tools be able to update, I am blocked from using the vmware tools network driver to install windows updates. Using the vm is extremely cumbersome. This means the whole process takes over an hour.

I actually tried to create an iso that I can mount from ESX with some of the software on it but I bumped into this problem as well.

This is a REALLY bad decision to not make vmware tools contain the Visual C++ executables. I realize there may be some newer features in tools that take advantage of advanced windows features, but a KEY point of vmware is being able to support older operating systems on new hardware.

This is a complete failure of that mission.