Before, the only way to check what the version of the “VM Additions” of a VM were was to fabricate a script and run it remotely or on the VM locally. Luckily the people at Microsoft have integrated a column in SCVMM 2012 in the “VMs and Services” section where you can now select “VM Additions” to show the version number of the “VM Additions”.

VM_additions_GUI

 

To view the VM Additions do the following:

  1. When you start SCVMM 2012 click on “VM’s and Services” in de wunderbar.
  2. Then go select a host under all hosts.
  3. Right click in the row that has the name, status etc
  4. Select “VM Additions”

Make sure your view is in VM view! (Red Square box in top)

SCVMM2012_RC_Show_VM_Additions

As with almost everything there is now also a Powershell way of collecting the “VM Additions” version numbers.

Get-VM | ft Name,VMAddition

VM_additions_PS

Unfortunately they didn’t put a column in the Fabric – Servers section to match the “VM Additions” with the version on the host so you still need to collect those with a script!