Download Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) with BITS cmdlets

*! Update: 2014-09-30:
Looking for the latest version of ADK 8.1, see my most recent post

Follow-up on downloading Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) 8.1 (September 2014)

*! Update: 2014-04-08:
Looking for the latest version of ADK 8.1, see my most recent post

Follow-up on downloading Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) 8.1

*! Update: 2013-10-24:
Looking for the latest version of ADK 8.1, see my most recent post https://p0w3rsh3ll.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/download-windows-assessment-and-deployment-kit-windows-adk-8-1/

While I was working on installing System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1, I had to download and install Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) as it’s a requirement for the OSD (Operating System Deployment) role.
Yes, the Windows ADK replaces the Windows AIK (Windows Automated Installation Kit) requirement on ConfigMgr 2012 RTM. As of SP1, ConfigMgr 2012 is able to deploy Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 and thus requires ADK (WinPE 4.0,…)

The following link also helped me quickly find out what components of ADK are required for ConfigMgr 2012 SP1:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/inside_osd/archive/2012/07/20/sp1-setup-changes-system-center-2012-configuration-manager.aspx…whereas the official documentation on the technet is: Prerequisites For Deploying Operating Systems in Configuration Manager

I first went to the download center to get the ADK using this link: go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkID=232339
You can get the English version with this powershell oneliner:

iwr -URI 'http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/9/F/99F5E440-5EB5-4952-9935-B99662C3DF70/adk/adksetup.exe' -OutFile F:\adksetup.exe

The above file acts also as a web downloader if it doesn’t find all the 3GB of files in a adjacent folders named Installers.

I wanted to know where it gets all these files. The log file was really helpful

We can see that the link http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=252915 is translated to http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/9/F/99F5E440-5EB5-4952-9935-B99662C3DF70/adk/, that it’s the root path of all the ADK files.
However, we are not allowed to browse files and subfolders.

I decided to extract all the URLs like this:

gc  "C:\Users\local-user\AppData\Local\Temp\adk\Assessment and Deployment Kit_20130213161354.log" | Get-Matches -Pattern ".*\sto\s(?<URL>http://.*)" | % { $_.URL } | Out-File F:\ADK.url.txt -Append

Note: Get-Matches was written by Dr. Tobias Weltner and is available on http://powershell.com/cs/blogs/tobias/archive/2011/10/27/regular-expressions-are-your-friend-part-1.aspx

Downloading 3GB of files sounds like a job for BITS (Background Intelligent Transfer Service) cmdlets.
But I’ve first to deal with the 302 web response, which means that the content has been temporarily moved.
To see it with Powershell, I’ve had to force the maximum redirection to 0, i.e. none, as it’s set by default to 5.

iwr -URI http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=252915 -MaximumRedirection 0 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Now the last thing I had to do is to capture the location where the content has been moved to.

Finally, here’s the function I wrote to download the ADK files using BITS cmdlets 🙂

#Requires -Version 3.0            
            
Function Get-ADKFiles {            
[CmdletBinding()]                
param(            
    [parameter(Mandatory)]                        
    [system.string]$TargetFolder = $null                       
)            
Begin {            
    # Make sure we run as admin                                    
    $usercontext = [Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal][Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent()                                    
    $IsAdmin = $usercontext.IsInRole(544)                                                                               
    if (-not($IsAdmin)) {                                    
        Write-Warning "Must run powerShell as Administrator to perform these actions"                                    
        break                        
    }                                     
    $HT = @{}            
    $HT += @{ ErrorAction = 'Stop'}            
    # Validate target folder            
    try {            
        Get-Item $TargetFolder @HT | Out-Null            
    } catch {            
        Write-Warning -Message "The target folder specified as parameter does not exist"            
        break            
    }            
}            
            
Process {            
    $adkGenericURL = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=252915 -MaximumRedirection 0 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)            
    # There's an expected error saying:            
    # The maximum redirection count has been exceeded.             
    # To increase the number of redirections allowed, supply a higher value to the -MaximumRedirection parameter.            
            
    # 302 = redirect as moved temporarily            
    if ($adkGenericURL.StatusCode -eq 302) {            
                
        # Currently set to http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/9/F/99F5E440-5EB5-4952-9935-B99662C3DF70/adk/            
        $MainURL = $adkGenericURL.Headers.Location            
            
        $AllURLs = DATA {                        
            ConvertFrom-StringData @'
        0=adksetup.exe
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'@            
        }            
            
        # Create target folders if required as BIT doesn't accept missing folders            
        If (-not(Test-Path (Join-Path -Path $TargetFolder -ChildPath Installers))) {            
            try {            
                New-Item -Path (Join-Path -Path $TargetFolder -ChildPath Installers) -ItemType Directory -Force @HT            
                # New-Item -Path $TargetFolder -ItemType Directory -Force -ErrorAction Stop            
            } catch {            
                Write-Warning -Message "Failed to create folder $($TargetFolder)/Installers"            
                break            
            }            
        }            
            
        # Create an job that will downlad our first file            
        $job = Start-BitsTransfer -Suspended -Source "$($MainURL)/$($AllURLs['0'])" -Asynchronous -Destination (Join-Path -Path $TargetFolder -ChildPath ($AllURLs['0']))             
                    
        For ($i = 1 ; $i -lt $AllURLs.Count ; $i++) {            
            $URL = $Destination = $null            
            $URL = "$($MainURL)Installers/$($AllURLs[$i.ToString()])"            
            $Destination = Join-Path -Path (Join-Path -Path $TargetFolder -ChildPath Installers) -ChildPath (([URI]$URL).Segments[-1] -replace '%20'," ")            
            # Add-BitsFile http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd819411.aspx            
            $newjob = Add-BitsFile -BitsJob $job -Source  $URL -Destination $Destination            
            Write-Progress -Activity "Adding file $($newjob.FilesTotal)" -Status "Percent completed: " -PercentComplete (($newjob.FilesTotal)*100/($AllURLs.Count))            
        }            
            
        # Begin the download and show us the job            
        Resume-BitsTransfer  -BitsJob $job -Asynchronous            
            
        # http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ee663885%28v=vs.85%29.aspx            
        while ($job.JobState -in @('Connecting','Transferring','Queued')) {            
            Write-Progress -activity "Downloading ADK files" -Status "Percent completed: " -PercentComplete ($job.BytesTransferred*100/$job.BytesTotal)            
        }             
        Switch($job.JobState) {            
         "Transferred" {            
                Complete-BitsTransfer -BitsJob $job            
                break            
            }            
         "Error" {            
                # List the errors.            
                $job | Format-List             
            }             
         default {            
                # Perform corrective action.            
            }             
        }            
    }            
}            
End {}            
}            
            
Get-ADKFiles -TargetFolder 'D:\Downloads\ADK'