Installing Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit

The next step of environment configuration before installing ConfigMgr is the installation of special tool set:

1. The Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit can be downloaded from the internet: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/windows-assessment-deployment-kit. The mentioned tool set needs to be installed before starting with the ConfigMgr installation.

1. After downloading the files from the internet, we can start the installation process. The installer will ask whether we would like to anonymously send data about the way we use ADK to Microsoft.

1. The next step is choosing the folder we would like ADK to be installed in:

1. The last step is choosing which individual tools from the tool set shall be installed. ConfigMgr requires the following components:
   • Deployment Tools
   • Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)
   • User State Migration Tool (USMT)

1. Additionally, Imaging And Configuration Designer (ICD) and Configuration Designer can be installed. These are responsible for creating installation packages for various Windows systems:

After the ADK installation is finished, the next step will be installing the ConfigMgr server.