Download and Install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit with PowerShell

Tue, 07 Feb 2017 16:22:42 +0000

Back in June 2012 I posted the Automated download and Installation for the Windows Assessment and Deployment kit article. Not a lot has changed since then,i.e. you still need to first download the sources before you can install them. Nevertheless since using batch scripts isn’t really state of the art anymore these days,I decided to rewrite the script in PowerShell.

Downlload source from GitHub

Automated Download and Installation for the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:13:55 +0000

Since I am going install the ADK on several clients and servers, I decided to automate that process based on the information found in the MSDN article Installing the Windows ADK

Because downloading all the ADK sources from the Microsoft web can take a while, the first task is to only download them and save the locally.

Create a folder on your local drive, let’s say C:\DATA\ADKSETUP
Then download the ADKSETUP.EXE from the Microsoft download page here and store it into C:\DATA\ADKSETUP (Note that this link will change once the RTM version is released).
Create a batch file called ADK_Download.cmd that has the following content:

@ ECHO OFF
cd %~dp0 adksetup.exe /quiet /installpath %~dp0 /layout %~dp0
Pause

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Download and Install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit with PowerShell

Automated Download and Installation for the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK)