#A quick grep of all VMs in a vcenter, with the configured and running OS (detected by a valid version of VMware tools installed)
#This is a great report if you find out some Admins were running “upgrades” from windows 2008 to 2012 and never reconfigured the VM OS setting.
$temp = get-view -viewtype “virtualmachine” -property name,guest.ToolsRunningStatus,guest.guestfullname,config.guestfullname
$OSMisconfiguredReport = @()
foreach($a in $temp){
$row = “” | select name,toolsstate,OSConfigured, OSRunning
$row.name = $a.name
$row.toolsstate = $a.guest.ToolsRunningStatus
$row.OSConfigured = $a.config.guestfullname
$row.OSRunning = $a.guest.guestfullname
$OSMisconfiguredReport += $row
}
$OSMisconfiguredReport | where {$_.toolsstate -eq “guestToolsRunning” -and $_.osrunning -notlike “” -and $_.osconfigured -ne $_.osrunning}