Farewell to the Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK) NAME TITLE 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 User State Migration Toolkit (USMT) Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)

Windows Automated installation kit WAIK

What was in the WAIK? Windows PE Tools Command Promptcmd.exe with the PATH variable set to the correct folder for working with WinPE tools copype.exeCreate the WinPE working environment, within which you can customize WinPE imagex.exeMount an image to an empty folder. Remember that images are file-based, not sector or compressed DISMAdd packages (functionality) to an image oscdimg.exeCreate an.ISO out of a folder tree Windows System Image Manager (WSIM)Create answer files (setup scripts) in the new.xml format ImageXCreate, mount and deploy image files

Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit WINDOWS ADK

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

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

ACM Process ACT 11 Collect data

ACM Process ACT 22 Inventory Data

ACM Process ACT 33 Analyze The ACT Community

ACM

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)

Meet ACT

Deployment Tools WINDOWS ADK

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

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

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

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

Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE 4.0)

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

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

WinPE 4.0

User State Migration Tool (USMT)

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

Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT)

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

New VAMT UI

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

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

Windows Performance Toolkit

Install Windows Performance Recorder Create a log View data from Windows Performance Analyzer

Windows Performance Toolkit

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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