Update Manager 4 will not scan or remediate Windows 2008 R2 server

[cffit]

I just setup a Windows 2008 R2 Server, and Update Manager will not scan it. It just says "Failed to scan or remediate SERVERNAME because of unsupported or unknown OS". I can scan and remediate my plain Windows 2008 Servers fine. Is R2 still not supported?

[lamw · Accepted solution]

I don't recall R2 being in the list of supported OSes, I believe that is also the case for VUM 4.0u1 or VUM 4.0u1.1

You'll probably want to check the release notes to be sure, though if the error message is saying it's not supported, probably isn't supported.

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[cffit]

I didn't see it listed in the release notes, which seems to reflect pretty poorly on VMWare in my opinion. I would hope that they'd be able to support an OS by the time it has been released.