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The Bees Knees script for installing VMware Tools

October 19, 2010December 3, 2008 by Jeremy Saunders

Updated 19th October 2010…

This is what I call the “bees knees” of scripts for deploying VMware Tools. It will detect if it’s being installed on a Terminal/Citrix Server, and remove the appropriate components that may impede performance, etc.

Categories Scripting, VMware, XenApp Tags Citrix, install VMware tools, Presentation Server, vmtools, XenApp 8 Comments

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