Public/Get-VMwareTools.ps1
Function Get-VMwareTools { <# .SYNOPSIS Get the current version and download URL for the VMware Tools. .NOTES Author: Bronson Magnan Twitter: @cit_bronson This functions scrapes the vendor web page to find versions and downloads. TODO: find a better method to find URLs .LINK https://github.com/aaronparker/Evergreen .EXAMPLE Get-VMwareTools Description: Returns the current version and download URLs for VMware Tools. #> [OutputType([System.Management.Automation.PSObject])] [Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessageAttribute("PSUseSingularNouns", "")] [CmdletBinding()] Param() # Get application resource strings from its manifest $res = Get-FunctionResource -AppName ("$($MyInvocation.MyCommand)".Split("-"))[1] Write-Verbose -Message $res.Name # Read the VMware version-mapping file $Content = Invoke-WebContent -Uri $res.Get.Update.Uri -Raw If ($Null -ne $Content) { # Format the results returns and convert into an array that we can sort and use $Lines = $Content | Where-Object { $_ –notmatch "^#" } $Lines = $Lines | ForEach-Object { $_ -replace '\s+', ',' } $VersionTable = $Lines | ConvertFrom-Csv -Delimiter "," -Header $res.Get.Update.CsvHeaders | ` Sort-Object -Property { [Int] $_.Client } -Descending $LatestVersion = $VersionTable | Select-Object -First 1 # Build the output object for each platform and architecture ForEach ($platform in $res.Get.Download.Platforms) { ForEach ($architecture in $res.Get.Download.Architecture) { # Query the download page for the download file name $Uri = ("$($res.Get.Download.Uri)$platform/$architecture/index.html").ToLower() $Content = Invoke-WebContent -Uri $Uri $filename = [RegEx]::Match($Content, $res.Get.Download.MatchFileName).Captures.Value # Build the output object $PSObject = [PSCustomObject] @{ Version = $LatestVersion.Version Platform = $platform Architecture = $architecture URI = "$($res.Get.Download.Uri)$($platform.ToLower())/$architecture/$filename" } Write-Output -InputObject $PSObject } } } } |