[Office Install]Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 10, version 2004
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 10, version 2004
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows 10, version 2004
The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) has the tools you need to customize Windows images for large-scale deployment, and to test the quality and performance of your system, its added components, and the applications running on it. The Windows ADK includes:
The Windows Assessment Toolkit and the Windows Performance Toolkit to assess the quality and performance of systems or components.
Deployment tools such as WinPE, Sysprep, and other tools that you can use to customize and deploy Windows 10 images.
Starting with Windows 10, version 1809, Windows Preinstallation Environment (PE) is released separately from the Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK). To add Windows PE to your ADK installation, download the Windows PE Addon and run the included installer after installing the ADK. This change enables post-RTM updates to tools in the ADK. After you run the installer, the WinPE files will be in the same location as they were in previous ADK installs.
Note
A Windows ADK for Windows 10, version 20H2 will not be released. You can use the Windows ADK for Windows 10, version 2004 To deploy Windows 10, version 20H2.
System Requirements
Supported Operating System
To install the Windows ADK, your computer must be running one of the following operating systems:
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 8
- Windows 7
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- Windows Vista
- Windows Server 2008
The Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is required and Windows ADK installs it automatically.
Be aware of the supported platforms and requirements for the following features in the Windows ADK.
• Application Compatibility Toolkit: You can install the Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) on any of the supported Windows ADK operating systems and also on Windows Vista. Note that ACT supports inventory on Windows XP PCs.
• Deployment Tools: To use the PowerShell cmdlets for Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management (DISM) or Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT), you must install PowerShell 4.0. For more information, see this Microsoft website.
Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 include PowerShell 4.0 by default.
Windows 8, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2012 include PowerShell 3.0 and will need to be upgraded to PowerShell 4.0.
Note: Whenever an item in the Windows ADK is updated, the entire kit is rebuilt and version numbers for all features in the kit are updated. Even though the version number has been updated, there might not be any changes to a feature. For a complete list of changes, see the Windows ADK Release Notes.
• Windows Assessment Toolkit: The Windows Assessment Console can be installed on the following operating systems: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, or Windows 7 with SP 1.
• Windows Assessment Services: To install Windows Assessment Services, your server must be running one of these operating systems: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Enterprise, Standard, or Datacenter edition. Windows Assessment Services is not supported on Server Core or on Domain Controller Servers. By default, the Windows Assessment Services-Client is installed on the server where you installed Windows Assessment Services. You can also install it on a client computer. To install Windows Assessment Services -Client, your computer must be running one of these operating systems: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8, or Windows 7 with SP1.
• Windows Performance Toolkit: The Windows Performance Toolkit can only be installed on the following operating systems: Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, or Windows Server 2008 R2.
• User State Migration Tool: The User State Migration Tool (USMT) tools can be manually copied to other versions of Windows. For more information, see USMT Requirements.
Install Instructions
For complete installation options, see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=234980.
To install the Windows ADK:
1. Run ADKSetup.exe.
2. Click Install, specify the location where you want to install the Windows ADK features, and then click Next.
3. Select the Windows ADK features that you want to install, and then click Install.
You only need to install the individual features for the scenario you want to accomplish:
• For deploying Windows to PCs, select the Deployment Tools and Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)
• For assessing the quality of individual Windows PCs, select the Windows Assessment Toolkit and Windows Performance Toolkit
• For assessing the quality of Windows PCs at scale, select Windows Assessment Services
• For enterprise user data migration, select User State Migration Tool
• For enterprise volume licensing tools, select Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)
• For application compatibility, select Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT)
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