State of new VM and OS Customisation

Hi,

is there any way to find out (programmatically) if a VM has successfully applied the OS Customisation?

I am writing a PowerShell workflow to deploy new VMs from a template, apply the OS Customisation and then I need to do more stuff. Instead of pinging or something like that (which won't be reliable), I'd rather use something built in to VMware.

Azure has a great concept of "PowerState = Provisioning". VMware VMs go straight to "PoweredOn".

Cheers

David