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Applies to

Windows 10

Administrative Tools is a folder in Control Panel that contains tools for system administrators and advanced users.

The tools in the folder might vary depending on which edition of Windows you are using.

These tools were included in previous versions of Windows. The associated documentation for each tool should help you use these tools in Windows 10. The following list provides links to documentation for each tool. The tools are located within the folder C:WindowsSystem32 or its subfolders.

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What's in the Release Notes

The release notes cover the following topics:

What's New

openssl version is updated to 1.1.1k.
VMware Tools package is available for upgrading VMware Tools using GuestStore.

Earlier Releases of VMware Tools

For earlier releases of VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools Documentation page.

Before You Begin

VMware Tools 11.2.6 supports the following guest operating systems:
- windows.iso supports Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and later.
  - Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable package is a prerequisite for installing VMware Tools for Windows 11.2.6 and ships with the VMware Tools 11.2.6 download package. While preparing a target Windows guest for installation, VMware Tools runs the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package installer which checks for the presence of a more recent version on the target guest. If the target guest has a more recent version already present, the package does not install.
    For a 32-bit Windows guest, the prerequisite version is Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) version 14.27.29016.0.
    For a 64-bit Windows guest, the prerequisite versions are Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x86) version 14.27.29016.0 and Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2019 Redistributable (x64) version 14.27.29016.0.
  - Installing or upgrading to VMware Tools 11.2.6 is not supported for Windows versions that do not meet the prerequisite and customers should continue to use VMware Tools 10.2.x or older until they can patch or update Windows OS to meet the prerequisites for VMware Tools 11.2.6. Refer to Microsoft's update KB2977003 for latest supported Visual C++ downloads.
  - Windows OS level prerequisites
    - Windows Server 2019
    - Windows Server 2016
    - Windows 10
    - Windows Server 2012 R2 with Microsoft's update KB2919355
    - Windows 8.1 with Microsoft's update KB2919355
    - Windows Server 2012
    - Windows 8
    - Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft's update KB4474419.
    - Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) with Microsoft's update KB4474419.
- darwin.iso supports Mac OS X versions 10.11 and later.
- For details on linux.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.23 Release Notes.
- For details on solaris.iso, refer to VMware Tools 10.3.10 Release Notes.
VMware Tools ISO images are frozen for some end of life guest operating systems. Some ISO images are not included with ESXi in the tools-light VIB. For more details, see the VMware Tools Documentation page. All VMware Tools ISO images are available for download from http://my.vmware.com.
VMware Tools for Windows: 32-bit and 64-bit installer executable (.exe) files are available for download. These files are provided for easier access and installation of VMware Tools in Windows guest operating systems.

Important note about upgrading to ESXi 6.5 or later

Resolution on incompatibility and general guidelines: While upgrading ESXi hosts to ESXi 6.5 or later, and using older versions of Horizon View Agent, refer to the knowledge base articles:

Internationalization

VMware Tools 11.2.6 is available in the following languages:

English
French
German
Spanish
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese

Product Support Notice

The Windows pre-Vista iso image for VMWare Tools is no longer packaged with ESXi. The Windows pre-Vista iso image is available for download by users who require it. For download information, see the Product Download page.

End of Feature Support Notice

New Microsoft Windows 11

Balloon driver has been removed from MacOS VMware Tools 11.1.0.
The tar tools (linux.iso) and OSPs shipped with VMware Tools 10.3.x release will continue to be supported. However, releases after VMware Tools 10.3.5 will only include critical and security fixes and no new feature support in these types of VMware Tools (tar tools and OSP's). It is recommended that customers use open-vm-tools for those operating systems that support open-vm-tools. For more information on different types of VMware Tools, see https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2016/02/understanding-the-three-types-of-vm-tools.html

Compatibility Notes

Starting with VMware Tools version 10.2.0, Perl script-based VMware Tools installation for FreeBSD has been discontinued. FreeBSD systems are supported only through the open-vm-tools packages directly available from FreeBSD package repositories. FreeBSD packages for open-vm-tools 10.1.0 and later are available from FreeBSD package repositories.

Guest Operating System Customization Support

The Guest OS Customization Support Matrix provides details about the guest operating systems supported for customization.

Interoperability Matrix

The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix provides details about the compatibility of current and earlier versions of VMware Products. The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix of VMware Tools 11.2.5 can be applied to VMware Tools 11.2.6.

Installation and Upgrades for this release

VMware Tools can be downloaded from the Product Download page.

The steps to install VMware Tools vary depending on your VMware product and the guest operating system you have installed. For general steps to install VMware Tools in most VMware products, see General VMware Tools installation instructions (1014294).To set up productLocker to point to the shared datastore, see KB 2004018.

This release provides packages to upgrade VMware Tools 11.2.5 or later deployments using GuestStore.

For specific instructions to install, upgrade, and configure VMware Tools, see the VMware Tools Documentation page.

Windows guest drivers installed by VMware Tools

VMware Tools 11.2.6 supports the following driver versions on a Windows Guest Operating System.

Drivers	VMware Tools 11.2.6
Hardware Drivers
`efifwfromhost.bin`	1.0.0.0
`pvscsi.sys`	1.3.15.0
`vmaudio.sys`	5.10.0.3506
`vmci.sys`	9.8.16.0

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