Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit

Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit
Developer(s)	Microsoft
Initial release	13 February 2007
Stable release	for Windows 11, v.24H2 / May 2024
Operating system	Windows 8.1 and later
Platform	x64, ARM64 (exclusively)
Size	32 MB ~ 3.48 GB
Available in	Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish
Type	Utility software
License	Freeware
Website	docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/get-started/adk-install

Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK), formerly Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK or WAIK), is a collection of tools and technologies produced by Microsoft designed to help deploy Microsoft Windows operating system images to target computers or to a virtual hard disk image in VHD format. It was first introduced with Windows Vista. WAIK is a required component of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.^[2]^[3]

^ "Download and install the Windows ADK". Windows Hardware Developer. Microsoft. 22 May 2024 – via Microsoft Docs.
^ Czechowski, Aaron (17 August 2015). "MDT 2013 Update 1 Now Available". Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Team Blog. Microsoft.
^ "Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Update 1 Release Notes" (Office Open XML). microsoft.com. Microsoft. September 2012.

[1] "Download and install the Windows ADK". Windows Hardware Developer. Microsoft. 22 May 2024 – via Microsoft Docs.

[2] Czechowski, Aaron (17 August 2015). "MDT 2013 Update 1 Now Available". Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Team Blog. Microsoft.

[3] "Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 Update 1 Release Notes" (Office Open XML). microsoft.com. Microsoft. September 2012.

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