Microsoft released the System Center Configuration Analyzer a little ago.  I’m setting VMM 2008 R2 up on my new demo laptop so I decided to do a little blogging.  You’ll find that the VMM 2008 R2 installer splash screen also has a link for this tool.  I use the order of the hyperlinks in that splash screen as my working order to install VMM 2008 R2.

There’s a simple requirement: Install Microsoft Baseline Configuration Analyser.  Once you have that installed then kick off the MSI for the VMMCA:

The setup is the usual next-next fare which isn’t worth wasting the kilobits over :-)

The tool is really pretty simple.  Specify the name of the machine(s) that will run each of the VMM roles.  The tool then goes off and scans them.

It then generates a report as “C:\Program Files\Virtual Machine Manager Configuration Analyzer\report.html” which is automatically opened in your browser.  As you can see, I had no issues – this is a new install of Windows Server 2008 R2 with IIS installed.

I can also run this tool if I’m having problems with VMM 2008 R2 to see if it can detect issues.  It’s small and it’s handy.