ThinkVantage tools and ThinkStation D10

I recently acquired a D10 (6493) and was looking forward to the same handy tools I use with most Lenovo products, ie the Productivity Center (which Lenovo specifically mentions ships with the D10), the System Update tool, the power management tools, etc.
This machine originally had Vista on it but needless to say I had no interest in keeping that so I installed Win7 Ultimate x64 on it. But when I install Productivity Center on it, it doesn't seem to recognize anything about the machine, ie no system overview with part number/serial number, etc. When I install System Update on it, the only item that ever shows in the list of updates after doing a check is a system migration tool. Despite the fact that when I had installed that there were a bunch of drivers etc that had not yet been installed. (Having an automated tool to install driver updates is one of the things I really like about Lenovo products)
Whereas when I installed a fresh Win7-Ultimate x64 install on my Thinkpad T400, the various tools recognize the Thinkpad as expected, the System Update utility displays the expected updates available and so on.
I realize that the Thinkstation may not use quite the variety of Lenovo tools that ie the Thinkpads do, but I know that they must use some, since ie some E10's I installed for a client last year certainly do.
Am I missing something here?
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since no win 7 drivers were qualified on the D10, TVSU will come up short on what's listed as compatible. if you were installing vista again then the database would exist and the results list much more extensive. win 7 includes many of the drivers your D10 needs anyway so you shouldn't be missing much if anything.
i'm not sure why TVPC isn't working for you. the software is quite old and was sunset early 2010 if memory serves, which could explain it. make sure that you're using the version for thinkcentre/thinkstation and not thinkpad. they're different.
3.11 is the most recent version available from 2009: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?&LegacyDocID=MIGR-63443
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