…You get my point right?
As a core prerequisite for Microsoft’s Deployment Toolkit Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK) successor: Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK), count’s numerous versions out there wandering the interwebs. As I’m always looking for the latest version available whenever I perform a Microsoft Deployment Toolkit implementation, I thought it would be nice to create and maintain a list of the most recent versions of ADK out there.
I went on a little investigation and came to the following table:
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I will continue to expand this list as new versions come available. If you have any missing info like download links of the versions listed above. Please do not hesitate to contact me!
Cheers! Rens
Download link for Windows ADK for Windows 10 RTM
http://download.microsoft.com/download/8/1/9/8197FEB9-FABE-48FD-A537-7D8709586715/adk/adksetup.exe
Thanks Rui!
Thanks for keeping this table up to date! It’s hard trying to find what version of ADK is for what version of Windows and luckily I stumbled across your site.
You are welcome 🙂
Rens;
Is there a list of what versions of WAIK-ADK go with the various Windows OS versions?
Thanks,
Hi Mark,
Basically this list is it. Which I try to keep up to date whenever a new version of Windows 10 comes out. For Windows 7 and prior there is the WAIK.
Regards
You’re a life saver! Thanks for this!
You are welcome!
Do I need to install every version of ADK for each OS or can I use ADK 1703 for all OS. If I need to install versions Please let me Know. Thanks Rusty
Hi Rusty,
Just the latest will do just fine. No need to install them after another.
Cheers! Rens
I’m using MDOP 2015 to create a Dart 10 but installing the latest ADK is giving me the “ErrorActionPreference” error and cleaning up everything afterwards. do I need the 2015 ADK? HELP PLEASE!
Hi Luis,
Not sure, what happens when you install the latest ADK on a Machine where MDOP is not present? I believe to incorporate DaRT in your WinPE image you just need to paste the cab files in the support or tools folder for WinPE.
Cheers!
Rens
Great Work Many Thanks.
Hi,
we still run Windows 7 on out clients and I try to set up a new deployment server for that.
Unfortunately I have to do this from scratch.
Is there a ADK for Windows 7 available any more?
Thanks for any hint…
BR
Chris
Hi Chris,
To my knowledge even the latest version of ADK is compatible with Windows 7. If not, just download a prior version of ADK, and if that doesn’t work you can always work with WAIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit v3.1 I believe)
Cheers! Rens
Hello,
I have lots of XP machines, and i need to migrate them to Windows Seven.
The recent ADK files and downloads did not help at all. So i need to find the version that would help achieve what i am looking for.
Thanks in advance.
Lotfi
Hi Lotfi,
Then you’ll need the Windows Automated Installation Kit (WAIK, see here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=5753) there is a 3.1 version but 3.0 will do. I’m not here to judge but if you are migrating just now from XP to Windows 7, oh boy..
Cheers! Rens
You’re just now migrating from XP, a 15 year old OS that hasn’t received security updates in 3 years, and you chose Windows 7, a 10 year old OS that is quickly approaching end of Extended Support? I mean i’m a big W7 fan, especially since creating images for 10 requires a lot of additional training, but I’d go straight to whatever the current 10 LTSB build is at the time of making the images.
Can you add this new WADK (Windows ADK for Windows 10, version 1709) on your table?
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=859206
Done! Thanks!
I guess the link to the 1709 version should be https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-assessment-deployment-kit
Hi Gertjan,
I provide direct download links, the link on the page is the same as in my table at version 1709:
Download
http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/1/E/31EC1AAF-3501-4BB4-B61C-8BD8A07B4E8A/adk/adksetup.exe
Cheers! Rens
Download latest version: : https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=859206
Link available through: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-assessment-deployment-kit
Direct Download link for Windows ADK for Windows 10 version 1803
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/8/9/689E62E5-C50F-407B-9C3C-B7F00F8C93C0/adk/adksetup.exe
Thank you so much! Even near the end of 2018 this is still useful. Here’s why…
Any version of Windows ADK after 1511 will error out when building deployment media in MDT for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008. Magically the later ADKs stopped supporting Windows 7 era OSes. I needed the latest ADK to properly slipstream updates into a Windows 10 deployment. So now I need to uninstall it and install 1511 or earlier. And no where online can you find the links to that old of a version. Microsoft sucks, but you saved the day. Otherwise I’d have to run a Windows 10 system just for making deployments of Windows 10 (a Chicken and the Egg dilemma).
Glad to help and see my old articles are still useful
I am unable to find Windows Server 2008, 2012 and 2016 ADK Tool kit installer.
Can we install v1803 ADK on Windows 10 v1903? It is unclear. In recent versions WinPE addon installation is now annoyingly complicated and a pain. Instructions here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/microsoft-released-windows-adk-10-v1903-and/f4e980cf-66d9-485c-a57c-3e14e2bff927
Here’s v1809 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2026036
Here’s v1903 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2086042
Here’s another list for recent versions and information from Microsoft https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install#other-adk-downloads