ADK for Windows 8.1.

News. Teched is coming… New version of ADK & MDT 2013

Here is a quick summary of the changes in ADK for Windows 8.1. MDT 2013 and ConfigMgr 2012 R2 requires ADK for Windows 8.1.

Windows 8.1 Image Size (Preview)

• Windows 8.1 Preview Code Image (x86), 2.13 GB (WIM), 7.65 GB expanded on disk.

WinPE 5.0

• Profiling in WinPE 5.0 is removed
• WinPE 5.0 x64 supports 4 TB of RAM (still 64 GB for x86)
• Scratchspace set automatically to 512 MB when having more than 1 GB of RAM, otherwise 32 MB

USMT 6.3

• Support for Windows 8.1
• You cannot use USMT 6.3 to migrate settings from Windows XP to Windows 8.1
• Supports Office 2013 (hotfix available for USMT 5.0).

Windows 8.1 Upgrade / Update

• You are likely to have more free space available on the disk after upgrading Windows 8 to Windows 8.1
• Windows 8.1 upgrade time, less than 20 minutes

Misc. Updates

• Export compressed recovery image (/Export-Image)
• Cleanup base components when superseded. (/StartComponentCleanup /ResetBase)