Windows 10 ADK Versions SCCM Support Scenarios

In this post, you will see the details of Windows 10 ADK versions and SCCM support scenarios. This post also comes with ADK download links. Also, this post will give some more information about SCCM 1902 and supported ADK versions.

Windows 10 and Windows 11 ADK and WinPE add-on help to customize Windows images for organizations. I feel these versions numbers and supported scenarios for Windows 10 ADK with SCCM/ConfigMgr are a bit complex. Hence thought of putting it together to kind of help IT admins.

we are going to have more news and details released about Windows 11 ADK in future posts. I don’t think there is any drastic change with Windows 11 ADK and WinPE. Also, SCCM support for Windows 11 ADKs are going to follow the similar pattern that they use for Windows 10.

• Windows 11 ADK Versions List Download Options

NOTE! – As we mentioned in the Windows 10 ADK installation step by step guide, we don’t recommend using SCCM or ADK version combination, which is Backward Compatible as per Microsoft documentation.

Windows 10 ADK Support for SCCM

The following table will help you to understand the support mechanism between SCCM versions and Windows 10 ADK versions. I have covered only the fully supported version of Windows 10 ADK with SCCM versions.

Since we don’t have any special feature update scenarios for Windows 10 anymore (at least since the last few updates), the Windows 10 ADK versions are not changing much, and even the support matrix is not changing much.

List of Windows 10 ADK Versions

The following table will give you more details about the supported versions of Windows 10 ADK. Microsoft does not support the previous versions which are not on the list.

NOTE! – Recommendation is to use the latest and supported versions of Windows 10 ADK.

Windows 10 ADK Upgrade Myths

I don’t think Windows 10 1903 ADK upgrade process will impact your custom boot images and OSD process. I have done many Windows 10 ADK upgrades in the past without impacting the OSD process at all.

You don’t have to worry about the SCCM OSD impact while upgrading Windows 10 1903 ADK upgrade (especially if you are using custom boot images and MDT boot images).

Resources

• SCCM Step by Step Guide to Update Windows ADK and WinPE Versions

Author

Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect on enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, Intune. He writes about technologies like ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc.…