I was installing Microsoft Windows 2012 Server (x64 180 days trial) in VMware Fusion 7.1 and tried to install the VMware Tools from Fusion. Didn’t work. Solution was to download the VMware Tools installer from packages.vmware.com/tools from within Windows Server 2012 and install it in the virtual machine.
Direct link to Windows x64 installation: packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/latest/windows/x64/