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

There’s a new release of the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) 8.1 this month.
I’ve seen a blog post from Johan Arwidmark about this new release:
http://www.deploymentresearch.com/Research/tabid/62/EntryId/187/What-rsquo-s-new-in-the-4th-release-of-Windows-ADK-8-1.aspx

I just came back from holidays and have prepared the updated code before my holidays but hadn’t time to blog about it 😐

What did I change in the code? Not many things.
I’ve removed duplicate entries in the here-strings and I’m now using a $PatchLevel variable to keep track of the current version.

#Requires -Version 4
#Requires -RunAsAdministrator 
   
Function Get-ADKFiles {
[CmdletBinding()]    
param(
    [parameter(Mandatory)]
    [system.string]$TargetFolder
)
Begin {
    $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
    }

    # April 2014: 8.100.26629
    $PatchLevel = "8.100.26866"

}
   
Process {
    $adkGenericURL = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=313081 -MaximumRedirection 0 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)
 
   
    # 302 = redirect as moved temporarily
    if ($adkGenericURL.StatusCode -eq 302) {
       
        # Currently set to http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/A/E/6AEA92B0-A412-4622-983E-5B305D2EBE56/adk/
        $MainURL = $adkGenericURL.Headers.Location
   
        $InstallerURLs = DATA {
            ConvertFrom-StringData @'
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                130=Volume Activation Management Tool-x86_en-us.msi
                131=wasinstaller.exe
                132=WimMountAdkSetupAmd64.exe
                133=WimMountAdkSetupArm.exe
                134=WimMountAdkSetupX86.exe
                135=Windows Assessment Services - Client (AMD64 Architecture Specific, Client SKU)-x86_en-us.msi
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                152=WPTx64-x86_en-us.msi
                153=WPTx86-x86_en-us.msi
'@
        }
   
        $PatchesURLs = DATA {
            ConvertFrom-StringData @'
                0=Toolkit Documentation-x86_en-us.msp
                1=Application Compatibility Toolkit-x86_en-us.msp
                2=Application Compatibility Toolkit-x64_en-us.msp
                3=Windows Deployment Tools-x86_en-us.msp
                4=Windows System Image Manager on amd64-x86_en-us.msp
                5=Windows System Image Manager on x86-x86_en-us.msp
                6=Windows PE x86 x64-x86_en-us.msp
                7=User State Migration Tool-x86_en-us.msp
                8=Volume Activation Management Tool-x86_en-us.msp
                9=WPTx86-x86_en-us.msp
                10=WPTx64-x86_en-us.msp
                11=WPT Redistributables-x86_en-us.msp
                12=Windows Assessment Toolkit-x86_en-us.msp
                13=Assessments on Client-x86_en-us.msp
                14=Windows Assessment Services-x86_en-us.msp
                15=Windows Assessment Services - Client (Server SKU)-x86_en-us.msp
                16=Assessments on Server-x86_en-us.msp
                17=Windows Assessment Services - Client (Client SKU)-x86_en-us.msp
'@
        }
  
        "Installers","Patches\$PatchLevel" | ForEach-Object -Process {
            # Create target folders if required as BIT doesn't accept missing folders
            If (-not(Test-Path (Join-Path -Path $TargetFolder -ChildPath $_))) {
                try {
                    New-Item -Path (Join-Path -Path $TargetFolder -ChildPath $_) -ItemType Directory -Force @HT
                } catch {
                    Write-Warning -Message "Failed to create folder $($TargetFolder)/$_"
                    break
                }
            }
        }
        # Get adksetup.exe
        Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "$($MainURL)adksetup.exe" -OutFile  "$($TargetFolder)\adksetup.exe"
   
        # Create a job that will downlad our first file
        $job = Start-BitsTransfer -Suspended -Source "$($MainURL)Installers/$($InstallerURLs['0'])" -Asynchronous -Destination (Join-Path -Path $TargetFolder -ChildPath ("Installers/$($InstallerURLs['0'])")) 
           
        # Downlod installers
        For ($i = 1 ; $i -lt $InstallerURLs.Count ; $i++) {
            $URL = $Destination = $null
            $URL = "$($MainURL)Installers/$($InstallerURLs[$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 (($newjob.FilesTotal)*100/($InstallerURLs.Count))
        }
  
        # Donwload Patches
        For ($i = 0 ; $i -lt $PatchesURLs.Count ; $i++) {
            $URL = $Destination = $null
            $URL = "$($MainURL)Patches/$PatchLevel/$($PatchesURLs[$i.ToString()])"
            $Destination = Join-Path -Path (Join-Path -Path $TargetFolder -ChildPath "Patches/$PatchLevel") -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
        }
   
        # 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 {}
}

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

  1. Hello , thank you for the efforts , i tried to run the latest updated version of the script and i got the below error:

    PS C:\Windows\system32> C:\script1.ps1
    At C:\script1.ps1:27 char:46
    + $adkGenericURL = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri <a class="linkification-ext" href=" …
    + ~
    The '<' operator is reserved for future use.
    + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RedirectionNotSupported

    please help

  2. Hi , i got the error when running the scripts:

    PS C:\Windows\system32> C:\script1.ps1
    At C:\script1.ps1:27 char:46
    + $adkGenericURL = (Invoke-WebRequest -Uri <a class="linkification-ext" href=" …
    + ~
    The '<' operator is reserved for future use.
    + CategoryInfo : ParserError: (:) [], ParentContainsErrorRecordException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : RedirectionNotSupported

    Appreciate any help, thanks

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