A Step-by-Step Guide to Updating Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Configuration Manager.
1. If you try to install ADK you will get the next message;
2. So, as the first step – navigate to Control Panel\Programs and Features and Uninstall existing ADK;
3. After uninstalling begin new ADK installation (Version 1703);
4. After successful installation starts the SCCM console. Navigate to Software Library\Operating Systems\Boot Images. You may delete old Boot images or not, as you wish. In this guide, I delete them. Select Boot image and click Delete in the upper menu;
5. After deleting click Add Boot Image in the upper menu;
6. Click Browse and navigate to the file.WIM (use network share path, not local path).
Here are the paths to both WIM:
- X86 WinPE: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Windows Preinstallation Environment\x86\en-us\winpe.wim
- X64 WinPE: C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Assessment and Deployment Kit\Windows Preinstallation Environment\amd64\en-us\winpe.wim
7. After WIM selecting click Next;
8. Enter Name and Comment (by default Version already exist), click Next;
9. Click Next;
10. Wait some time;
11. Click Close;
12. Select the newly added Boot image and click Properties in the upper menu;
13. Navigate to the Data Source tab and set checkmark Deploy this boot image from the PXE-enabled distribution point;
14. Also, navigate to the Customization tab and set the checkmark Enable command support (testing only), click OK;
15. In the pop-up choose No;
16. Select Boot image, click Distribute Content in the upper menu, and distribute it to your Distribution Point;
17. Distribution complete;
18. Navigate to Task Sequences and select your existing Task, click Properties in the upper menu;
19. In the Advanced tab set a checkmark Use a boot image and click Browse to select the newly added Boot image after that click OK;
That’s all!
