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Farewell to the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK)

Farewell to the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK). Name Title email. DMVMUG User Conference 2013 – Reston, VA. Agenda. Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK ) Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) Deployment Tools WinPE 4.0 Windows Performance Toolkit

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Farewell to the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK)

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  1. Farewell to the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) Name Title email DMVMUG User Conference 2013 – Reston, VA

  2. Agenda • Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) • Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) • Deployment Tools • WinPE 4.0 • Windows Performance Toolkit • User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) • Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)

  3. WAIK Windows Automated installation kit

  4. What was in the WAIK?

  5. Windows ADK Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit

  6. Windows ADK Overview • Installing on a machine that already has WAIK or Windows OPK installed is not supported

  7. ACT Tests Applications on Windows 8 • And Windows 7 • And web sites • How to test • Have a test pilot group that works with the application on a daily basis • Give them some time with the application • The Application Compatibility Manager or ACM is the tool to use

  8. ACM Process ACT 1 Collect data

  9. ACM Process Data ACT Data 2 Inventory Data

  10. ACM Process The ACT Community 3 Analyze ACT

  11. ACM

  12. ACT Requires a Database • The supported databases are: • SQL Server 2008 • SQL Server 2005 • SQL Server 2008 Express • SQL Server 2005 Express Edition • What’s not supported: • SQL Server 2000 • Microsoft Database Engine (MSDE)

  13. Meet ACT

  14. Windows ADK Deployment Tools

  15. Deployment Tools • Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) • Windows System Image Manager (WSIM) • oscdimg, BCDBoot, WimGAPI, DISMAPI

  16. DISM • Functions performed on images • Mount and Un-mount images • Capture • Apply • Delete • Export • Append • ImageX completely deprecated • Supports PowerShell 3.0 cmdlets

  17. Windows System Image Manager (WSIM) • Creates .xml unattend files • Help create consistent deployments of Windows 8 • Other tools automatically create the unattend for you • MDT 2012 U1 • SCCM 2007 • SCCM 2012 • SCCM 2012 SP1

  18. Command Line Utilites and More • Oscdimg • BCDBoot • Create a system partition or repair the boot environment on the system partition • WimGAPI and DISMAPI

  19. Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE 4.0)

  20. WinPE 4.0 Features • Includes .Net 4.0 • Powershell 3.0 • Internet SCSI (WinPE-iSCSIcmdlets) • New option WPEUtilWaitForNetwork • Forces WinPE to load network drivers prior to attempting to run any scripts

  21. WinPE 4.0 • Create a bootable WinPE • Windows AIK • CopyPE x86 c:\WinPE • Copy winpe.wim -> c:\WinPE\ISO\Boot\Boot.wim • oscdimg -n -betfsboot.com c:\winpe\iso c:\winpe\winpe.iso • Windows ADK • MakeWinPEMedia.cmd • CopyPE amd64 C:\WinPE40 • MakeWinPEMedia /ISO C:\WinPE40 C:\WinPE40\WinPE40.iso

  22. WinPE 4.0

  23. User State Migration Tool (USMT)

  24. ADK - USMT • 2 new switches • Usmtutils /verify • Verifies status of each file in a compressed migration store • Default summary lists: • Number of files intact • Number of files corrupt • Usmtutils /extract • Extracts all files from a compressed migration store • Improved error management • Error summary in Scanstate and Loadstate logs

  25. Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)

  26. VAMT 3.0 • New user interface • Computer information is stored in SQL now • 5 new Volume License reports

  27. New VAMT UI

  28. What VAMT Can Do For You • Add/Remove computers • Discover computers by querying AD DS, workgroups, by individual computer name or IP address, or via a general LDAP query • Discover products • Windows, Windows Server, Office • Monitor activation status • Collect activation information about each product • last 5 characters of the product key • current license state (Licensed, Grace, Unlicensed) • product edition information • Manage product keys • Use VAMT to install product keys to remote client products • Manage activation data • VAMT data is stored in a SQL database • VAMT can export this data to other VAMT hosts or to an archive in XML format

  29. ADK - VAMT • 5 new volume license reports • Products about to be unlicensed • Duplicate computer machine ID • State and usage of MAK keys • Computers in unlicensed state • List of computers activated thru KMS compared to AD

  30. Windows Performance Toolkit

  31. Windows Performance Toolkit • Install Windows Performance Recorder • Create a log • View data from Windows Performance Analyzer

  32. Windows Performance Toolkit

  33. Review • Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) • Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) • Deployment Tools • WinPE 4.0 • Windows Performance Toolkit • User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) • Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)

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