Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7

Published: October 22, 2009

Updated: October 22, 2009

Applies To: Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

The Windows® Automated Installation Toolkit (AIK) is a collection of tools and documentation designed to help IT Professionals deploy Windows.

The Windows AIK is ideal for highly customized environments. The tools in the AIK enable you to configure many deployment options, and they provide a high degree of flexibility. The corporate deployment environment varies from one company to another. Depending on your business needs and resources, you may choose to use all or parts of the resources available in the AIK.

Download the Windows AIK tools from this Microsoft web site:(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=136976)

For the latest information about this release, see the Windows Automated Installation Kit for Windows 7 Readme.

Tools Included with the Windows AIK

The following table shows the important tools that are included with the Windows AIK.

Tool	Description
Windows System Image Manager (Windows SIM)	The tool used to open Windows images, create answer files, and manage distribution shares and configuration sets.
ImageX	The tool used to capture, create, modify, and apply Windows images.
Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM)	The tool used to apply updates, drivers, and language packs to a Windows image. DISM is available in all installations of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Windows Preinstallation Environment (Windows PE)	A minimal operating system environment used to deploy Windows. The AIK includes several tools used to build and configure Windows PE environments.
User State Migration Tool (USMT)	A tool used to migrate user data from a previous Windows operating system to Windows 7. USMT is installed as part of the AIK in the %PROGRAMFILES%\Windows AIK\Tools\USMT directory. For more information about USMT, see the User State Migration Tool User’s Guide (%PROGRAMFILES%\Windows AIK\Docs\Usmt.chm).

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Download interrupted

Gylenthal | Edit | Show History

I tried already several times to download this kit, but every time, after downloading the full 1,7 GB, the download is interrupted. $0$0 $0 $0Why?????????????$0

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help me

FLORIN SOCU | Edit | Show History

its not posible instl sp 1

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Working link

Martinv26 ... Thomas Lee | Edit | Show History

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/confirmation.aspx?familyId=696dd665-9f76-4177-a811-39c26d3b3b34&;;amp;amp;amp;displayLang=en1

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Dual Layer Disks

ronrobe ... Thomas Lee | Edit | Show History

I use AIK to create a bootable disk which loads the Ghost program with a Ghost image as a backup/recovery disk. This works fine when using a standard DVD, but fails when using a dual layer disk. The disk is not bootable and I have a lot of coasters. Are there some settings to make a bootable dual layer disk that I've missed?

[tfl] Thank you for your feedback. For these kinds of questions, please try the Microsoft forums:  http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en or TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories

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Corrupted downloads

PlateSpinner ... Thomas Lee | Edit | Show History

With a little searching, it's easy to see that LOTS of people are getting corrupted downloads from the KB3AIK.iso file. Just do a search for "startcd.exe not a valid win32 application".

I really wish Microsoft posted the MD5 checksum of the working file on the download page. When i finally download a copy that works, I'll try and remember to come back here post the checksum here.

[tfl] Thank you for your feedback. For these kinds of questions, please try the Microsoft forums:  http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en or TechNet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/categories

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broken down halfway?

carugoman | Edit | Show History

Halfway through the download provided (as a "fix" to a broken link,) the download hangs. This happened twice; once at 57% d/l'd and 58% d/l'd on the second try. I'm not so sure if I wish to try the "third time is the charm" trick, eh? Your thoughts, please?

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Broken link

vesket | Edit | Show History

For some reason, the link http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=136976 lead to a Bing search telling that there are no content.

Am using the latest IE, a norwegian one, reading this webpage in US English.

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