Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit
| Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
| Initial release | 13 February 2007 |
| Stable release | for Windows 11, v.24H2
/ May 2024 |
| Operating system | Windows 8.1 and later |
| Platform | x64, ARM64 (exclusively) |
| Size | 32 MB ~ 3.48 GB |
| Available in | Arabic, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish |
| Type | Utility software |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | docs |
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK), formerly Windows Automated Installation Kit (Windows AIK or WAIK), is a collection of tools and technologies produced by Microsoft designed to help deploy Microsoft Windows operating system images to target computers or to a virtual hard disk image in VHD format. It was first introduced with Windows Vista. WAIK is a required component of Microsoft Deployment Toolkit.