Owner's Manual

• Working knowledge of Windows Deployment Services (WDS) or any other third-party
deployment system or tool for Windows PE.
• A workstation with the following capabilities:
o A writable CD/DVD drive and CD/DVD writing software
o Network access
• A target system with a CD/DVD drive if you are performing a local deployment or network access
if you are performing a network deployment.
• All Deployment Toolkit utilities, sample scripts, and sample configuration files.
• All required Windows PE drivers, operating system drivers, and the Dell utility partition image file.
• A minimum BIOS version is recommended on some of the platforms for all the DTK options to
work correctly. In general, it is good practice to use the latest ("n") version of BIOS firmware or
the "n-1" version that is available on "support.dell.com."
For more information see the Dell Systems Software Support Matrix available in the required version of
OpenManage Software at dell.com/openmanagemanuals.
Operating System Requirements
The following operating systems are supported in this release:
DTK utilities (SYSCFG and RAIDCFG) and scripts (sample) support Windows PE 3.0, Windows PE 4.0, and
Windows PE 5.0.
Note: For Microsoft WinPE and OS deployment support limitations refer to
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh824993.aspx
DTK helps to deploy the following Microsoft Windows Server operating systems:
• Windows Server 2012 R2 Foundation, Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter editions
• Windows Server 2012 Foundation, Essentials, Standard, and Datacenter editions
• Windows Server 2008 SP2 (32-bit and 64-bit)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 ( 64-bit)
What’s New
The new features for this release include:
• Support for deployment of Windows operating system in Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
(UEFI) mode.
• Using DTK utilities you can deploy the following operating system:
o Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter, Foundation, Essentials, and Standard
editions