Raging calm
Stupid me, I needed to deliver a fully automated deployment OS to a customer for a Virtual Box VM within the next 2 days, then I realized that this OS would never deploy because it was built upon ADK 10 + MDT 2013 U1 which simply don’t work with Virtual Box !!!!
My only path to salvation was to downgrade ADK 10 to 8.1 with the goal of creating a WinPE image that Virtual Box could support. Side effect of this process ; I also need to downgrade MDT 2013 U1 to a version that does not works only with ADK 10 !
Rage Roll
First thing to do is to remove MDT 2013 U1:
And ADK 10:
Then replace then with MDT 2013 and ADK 8.1.
Once everything is installed, You will get this scary message if you launch the deployment Workbench (version numbers may differ depending on where you come from, and where you want to go) :
Close your deployment workbench, this is where the downgrade will really take place :
Browse to folder <MyDeploymentShare>\Control and edit the file named Version.xml.
In this file, replace the version number by the one indicated above as the current version (in this case 6.2.5019.0):
<version>6.2.5019.0</version>
Save the file and relaunch your workbench, now you can browse again within your deployment share.
But that’s just one part of the solution, In order to create a boot image with the currently installed ADK, some extra task are required:
In your deployment share folder, delete the following directories
- Boot
- Servicing
- Tools
Copy the Tools folder from C:\Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\Templates\Distribution to your deployment share.
Copy the content of C:\Program Files\Microsoft Deployment Toolkit\Templates\Distribution\Scripts to <MyDeploymentShare>\Scripts
Now everything should be sorted, you can update your deployment share, the WinPE image will be created with the right ADK.
Side Notes
1. If you’ve created Media, you also need to perform the above tasks in you media folder.
2. This is, of course, absolutely unsupported, and I will not guarantee anything or take any responsibility for any damage caused by this tutorial. Use at own risk, but better than that : don’t use it unless you can’t rebuild your share from scratch (painful but supported). Also, trying to downgrade further than release n-1 as more in common with Russian roulette than with computer science.You’ve been warned. You are on your own !!!!
3. Yes, that worked with my Virtual Box deployment !!…