If you haven't already seen the Microsoft Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool 2.1 (OVMST) you don't know what you are missing!

Built around System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) this Solution Accelerator schedules updates to for VMs that are archived or offline.

This updated version provides support of:

• SCVMM 2008 R2
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Windows 7

For those that are interested you can see a recording of me demoing (the previous version) here.

If you are licence for Windows 7 (or 2008 R2) with a volume licensing you will need the following product keys in your unattend.xml to allow the installation to succeed. This is a change from Vista which didn’t require a key on installation to then activate against a KMS server.

Windows 7 Professional - FJ82H-XT6CR-J8D7P-XQJJ2-GPDD4
Windows 7 Professional N - MRPKT-YTG23-K7D7T-X2JMM-QY7MG
Windows 7 Enterprise - 33PXH-7Y6KF-2VJC9-XBBR8-HVTHH
Windows 7 Enterprise N - YDRBP-3D83W-TY26F-D46B2-XCKRJ
Windows 7 Enterprise E - C29WB-22CC8-VJ326-GHFJW-H9DH4
Windows Server 2008 R2 HPC Edition - FKJQ8-TMCVP-FRMR7-4WR42-3JCD7
Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter - 74YFP-3QFB3-KQT8W-PMXWJ-7M648
Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise - 489J6-VHDMP-X63PK-3K798-CPX3Y
Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium-Based Systems - GT63C-RJFQ3-4GMB6-BRFB9-CB83V
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard - YC6KT-GKW9T-YTKYR-T4X34-R7VHC
Windows Web Server 2008 R2 - 6TPJF-RBVHG-WBW2R-86QPH-6RTM4