Release date: January 24th 2022
Welcome to my VMware Dynamic Environment Manager series. In this session I will describe how I upgraded the VMware DEM Agent to v. 2111 using MDT. I start out by downloading the installation media from VMware Customer Connect
As I’ve gone over to using MDT to create VMware Horizon Windows images, I will update the Dynamic Environment Manager Agent in the Deployment Share and run through the task sequence to create a new Windows image. Before I begin, I open the task sequence and can see that it has found the 10.3.0.993 build in the Deployment Share.
I close the Deployment Workbench MMC before I continue. To update the Dynamic Environment Manager Agent in the Deployment Share, I will first delete the existing agent.
Next, I copy the new VMware Dynamic Environment Manager Agent msi-file to the “DEM” folder in the Deployment Share. It is important to make sure that the executable isn’t blocked by Windows Security, therefore I right-click the msi-file, select Properties and tick the Unblock box, if it exists. This also applies to the other executable files under the “D:\DeploymentShare\VMware” folder.
When I now open the Deployment Workbench MMC, the new Dynamic Environment Manager Agent build will be identified correctly.
As my task sequence is based on the osot.xml template, I will also have to edit this file with the correct msi-file name. Once done, I update the Deployment Share before I run through the task sequence and push the new Windows image to my desktop pool
This concludes my session about upgrading the VMware DEM Agent to v. 2111. As there aren’t any updates to the Application Profiler in this release, there is no need to update this component. I can now proceed with upgrading the DEM Manager to v. 2111, posted here: VMware DEM – Upgrade Manager to v. 2111
Official VMware Dynamic Environment Manager Documentation
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