Last updated: October 2025. This guide is maintained by IT deployment professionals. Have a correction or update? Check the official Microsoft ADK changelog.

Once you download the web installer ( adksetup.exe ), you do not need to install the entire 5GB kit. Use a command-line extraction:

You generally do not download this MSI file individually from a public link. Instead, it is retrieved through the process:

Essentially, this file is the offline documentation for the Windows ADK toolset. It was historically included as an optional feature in older ADK versions (Windows 8.1 / Windows 10, version 1507–1809 era).

Common deployment workflows