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You then create a third assessment that evaluates the first boot experience. In the final exercise in this guide, you package a job and run it on a different computer so that you can compare the results of the two jobs.

Exercise 1: Run a Job with Recommended Settings. Verify that the Install the Assessment and Deployment Kit to this computer option is selected, and then click Next. For these exercises, you are only required to install the Assessment Toolkit and the Windows Performance Toolkit.

Verify that they are selected. When the installation finishes, the Windows Assessment Console can be opened from the Start menu. The Windows Assessment Console is used to discover, create, edit, and view the results that a job produces. A job is a collection of one or more assessments and their settings that are run as a group on a single computer.

When the Windows Assessment Console opens, the Home tab provides easy access to some predefined jobs and individual assessments that you can run immediately without any configuration steps. In addition, when you create a new job, predefined jobs are available as templates.

A job that is created from a template can also be run without modification or additional configuration steps. Run a Single Assessment with Recommended Settings. Use a Template with Recommended Settings. Running an assessment with the recommended settings is quick and easy. The settings are defined by Microsoft to make sure that the results can be compared across different computer configurations or over time on the same computer.

In this exercise, you run a single assessment using the predefined recommended settings. On the Home page, click Run Individual Assessments. In the details pane on the right, click the Windows UI performance assessment, and then in the lower-right corner, click Run. Before the job starts, the job checks the computer configuration to make sure that the assessment can run successfully. The job generates error messages, warnings, and informational messages based on the computer configuration and the requirements of the assessment.

The notifications appear in the Assessment Launcher dialog box as follows:. Errors block the start of the job. Error messages appear when the job finds a problem with the computer hardware or configuration that must be fixed before the job can continue. The Start button is not available in the dialog box if an error message appears. After you fix blocking errors, you can click Refresh to check the computer again and continue the job.

Warnings appear when the job finds a problem that does not block running the job, but may affect the results. You can review the warnings and take action, or ignore the warnings and click Start.

Informational messages provide additional instructions or information about actions that will be taken when the job runs. Important Do not interact with the computer while the job is running.

You will see activities while the job is running. When the job finishes, the results will appear in the Windows Assessment Console. The results of this assessment show rendering and responsiveness metrics. Search performance metrics include the time that is required for various aspects of Search to be completed and displayed. Transition performance metrics include delays, frame rates, and glitches. Responsiveness results are measured in milliseconds. Low numbers mean that the computer is faster and more responsive.

After upgrading the ADK to the latest version, here are a few general items of note for Configuration Manager:. Remember, Configuration Manager does not yet support WimBoot. Windows PE version 5. Windows PE 5. Be your company's Microsoft insider by reading these Windows and Office tips, tricks, and cheat sheets. Delivered Mondays and Wednesdays. Mark W. Kaelin has been writing and editing stories about the IT industry, gadgets, finance, accounting, and tech-life for more than 25 years.

Most recently, he has been a regular contributor to BreakingModern. Microsoft Weekly Newsletter Be your company's Microsoft insider by reading these Windows and Office tips, tricks, and cheat sheets. Delivered Mondays and Wednesdays Sign up today. Editor's Picks. After you run the job on the other computer, import the results to the default results library. You can compare the results from any Windows based computer with those of any other supported operating system to identify differences.

Run assessments on a clean computer a computer that includes only the operating system to establish baseline system results. For instructions, see Create baseline results. Add new hardware or software to the clean computer system and then rerun the assessments to compare the results with clean-computer results. Windows Assessment Console common scenarios. Assessment Platform Command-Line Syntax. Skip to main content.

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