The document discusses tools and components in the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for automating deployment, imaging, and managing configurations across enterprise environments. It describes tools for migrating user profiles and files, activating Windows installations, monitoring performance, and assessing existing systems. The Windows ADK components allow automating deployments, centralized management of configurations, and compliance with industry standards.

2. Deploymen
t

3. Challenges
configuration content compliance
settings management standards
preserve user
configuration configuration
settings and
standards drift
files

4. • Automation
• Wizard-guided user interface
• Centralized management

6. Windows ADK Components
• Deployment and Imaging
• Windows Preinstallation Environment
• User State Migration Tool
• Volume Activation Management Tool
• Windows Performance Toolkit
• Windows Assessment Toolkit
• Windows Assessment Services

9. • Migrate user profiles and
files
• Required by MDT and
System Center 2012
Configuration Manager
• Command line tools
• ScanState.exe
• LoadState.exe
• UsmtUtils.exe

10. Automate and Windows, Office, Enterprise
centrally manage other products environments
Multiple Windows Key
Manage volume Activation Keys Management
activation (MAKs) Service (KMS)

11. Profiles
Performance
Windows
monitoring
and
tools
applications
Windows Windows
Performance Performance
Recorder Analyzer
(WPR) (WPA)

12. • Assess existing Windows
operating system
• Assess performance,
reliability, and functionality
• Recommend improvements

13. • Test framework for running assessments
• Used in lab environments
• Measure performance, reliability,
and functionality

16. Managed
devices
Group Policy settings

18. Industry best practices
Configuration settings
Reference computer
Target computer

19. • Partially and fully automated • Partially and fully automated • Fully automated deployments
deployments deployments • With System Center 2012
• Without System Center 2012 • With System Center 2012 Configuration Manager
Configuration Manager Configuration Manager • Configuration settings in advance
• Just-in-time configuration
• Just-in-time configuration settings
setting
ZTI and UDI use common processes

20. Any size organization

21. Evaluate Windows 8
Evaluate MDT