What's new in Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) 10.1.25398.1 for Windows 11
Sep 19, 2023- Windows PE:
- Added support for x64 emulation on Arm64 WinPE as an optional component
- Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA):
- WPA is now built on .NET 6, which includes native ARM64 support.
- New UI:
- Diagnostic Console
- Trace Processing with Select Table
- Settings
- Addressed a ETL trace processing issue related to .NET 7, see ETW Trace Processing Fails with Error Code 0x80070032
- Windows System Image Manager:
- x86 version of SIM can create catalogs for Windows images of all supported achitecture types.
- Assessment toolkit known issues:
- On ARM64 devices, the WPA executable is not automatically added to the PATH environment variable.
- When maximizing WPA in fullscreen on a secondary monitor, the top left right-click menu appears on the incorrect monitor.
New in Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) 10.1.22621.1 for Windows 11 (May 25, 2022)
- Windows Performance Recorder (WPR):
- WPR can now enable event providers in the system session. This means <SystemCollectorId> can include <EventProviders> in WPR profile file.
- Added the compress trace option for the stop command in WPR and WPRUI
- Windows Performance Analyzer (WPA):
- Supports plugins built on the Software Development Kit for the Microsoft Performance ToolKit
- New Modern UI
- Dark/Light Mode
- Font Scaling
- Improved Search UI
- High DPI support
- Accessibility Improvements
- Table/Graph Improvements
- Customize Colors via AQS Queries
- Quick Filter Support
- Aggregation UI Improvements
- Improved Trace Processing and Performance Improvements
- What's new in the ADK for Windows 11:
- Assessment toolkit known issues:
- Modern Standby performance assessment:
- If you enable the new LockScreen option: For the "When should Windows require you to sign-in again" question in the Settings app sign-in options, make sure to select "When PC wakes up from sleep".
- Some regions of interests may randomly appear in the Windows Assessment Toolkit assessment report due to a known issue in Windows Performance Toolkit. Re-analysis of the results may correct the issue.
- Microsoft Edge performance assessment: On entry-level hardware with low memory or two cores, the results may show an large amount of outliers in the results distribution due to a race condition in the test logic. In that case, only the fastest iterations should be considered valid.
- Microsoft Store App performance assessment: If you don't specify a filter the test may fail on Arm64 when trying to assess some infrastructure appx packages. If this happens, you can specify a filter to only test the apps you desire, or add the failing package name to blocklist.txt.
New in Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) 10.1.22000.1 for Windows 11 (Nov 26, 2021)
- Assessment toolkit known issues:
- Modern Standby performance assessment:
- If you enable the new LockScreen option: For the "When should Windows require you to sign-in again" question in the Settings app sign-in options, make sure to select "When PC wakes up from sleep".
- Some regions of interests may randomly appear in the Windows Assessment Toolkit assessment report due to a known issue in Windows Performance Toolkit. Re-analysis of the results may correct the issue.
- Microsoft Edge performance assessment: On entry-level hardware with low memory or two cores, the results may show an large amount of outliers in the results distribution due to a race condition in the test logic. In that case, only the fastest iterations should be considered valid.
- Microsoft Store App performance assessment: If you don't specify a filter the test may fail on ARM64 when trying to assess some infrastructure appx packages. If this happens, you can specify a filter to only test the apps you desire, or add the failing package name to blocklist.txt.
New in Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) 1.0 for Windows 10 v2004 (May 26, 2021)
- Windows Performance Recorder (WPR):
- New SkipPDBGen Option - During WPR stop, you can now specify in the command line the ability to skip generation of PDBs (NGen & Embedded) to help reduce trace stop time:
- wpr -stop <recording filename> <Problem description> [-skipPdbGen]
New in Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) 1.0 for Windows 10 v1903 (Apr 19, 2019)
- The latest WPA has two new features:
- Right-Click Tooltips for Column Headers - Use this for “one click” changes to Column Aggregation, Format, and Modes.
- Utility Columns for CPU Tables (Sampled & Precise) - This augments the Weight or Usage columns values by performance characteristics of the Processor Architecture.
- Windows System Image Manager known issue:
- When using Window System Image Manager (SIM), you might encounter errors if the ADK is installed on a device running a 64-bit version of Windows. To create unattended Windows Setup answer files using Windows SIM, take one of the following actions:
- Install the ADK onto a device running a 32-bit version of Windows (Recommended)
- Install and use Windows SIM from ADK Version 1809
- Windows Assessment Toolkit known issue:
- The Fast Startup assessment may not automatically reboot some systems using an ACPI Time and Alarm device after shutdown when the “use wake timers” option is selected in the assessment configuration. If this is blocking test automation, clear the option and retry.
New in Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) 1.0 for Windows 10 v1803 (May 28, 2018)
- PowerView:
- PowerView is a new tool used to visualize data from Energy Estimation Engine logs produced by powercfg /srumutil, and Windows Assessment Toolkit battery life tests.
- New in Windows Assessment Toolkit:
- Standby (S3) and Hibernate (S4) battery life workloads
- Productivity Workload (prerequisite: install Microsoft Office 2016 before executing the test)
- Modern Standby Performance
- Answer file setting changes:
- For an overview of Unattend settings that are new, deprecated, and removed, see Changed answer file settings for Windows 10, version 1803 for desktop editions.
- MDM: Enhanced device and PC management:
- Check out the new CSPs settings.