{"id":7999,"date":"2018-12-15T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/159.69.82.204\/win\/?p=7999"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:47:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:47:05","slug":"microsofts-surface-diagnostics-toolkit-for-business-sdt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/2018\/12\/15\/microsofts-surface-diagnostics-toolkit-for-business-sdt\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&rsquo;s Surface Diagnostics Toolkit for Business (SDT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline;\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20180729113450\/https:\/\/v47.imgup.net\/Surface218b.jpg\" width=\"71\" height=\"52\" align=\"left\" \/>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.borncity.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/11\/ms-diagnostic-toolkit-zum-lsen-von-surface-problemen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">German<\/a>]Microsoft has released a new tool to help the user with problems (hardware, firmware and software) with his Surface devices. Here are a few details about that toolkit.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Despite 'High Price' devices, Microsoft's Surface devices are more often noticed for malfunctioning or trouble. A Windows update or the firmware fails, or hardware issues are causing trouble. Microsoft provides a tool called '<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/surface-diagnostic-toolkit-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Surface Diagnostics Toolkit for Business (SDT)<\/a>' for IT administrators in business environments. The announement may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/surface\/2018\/12\/10\/introducing-the-surface-diagnostic-toolkit-for-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OV6vzL6.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Surface Diagnostics Toolkit\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OV6vzL6.jpg\" alt=\"Surface Diagnostics Toolkit\" width=\"631\" height=\"424\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Source: Microsoft, <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/OV6vzL6.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Click to zoom<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The Surface Diagnostic Toolkit is designed to help quickly solve hardware, software and firmware issues within Surface devices, starting with Surface Pro 3 and higher. However, the tool is only intended for enterprise IT administrators and offers the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the tool finds hardware issues, it generates a report showing possible causes and recommended troubleshooting steps.<\/li>\n<li>If software is the cause, the toolkit can immediately repair system files and other core components. .<\/li>\n<li>If administrators need to diagnose devices for geographically dispersed teams, you can install the Surface Diagnostic Console and run the Surface Diagnostic Toolkit from the command prompt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Surface Diagnostic Toolkit (SDT) is installed via an MSI.exe. Details of the toolkit can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/surface\/surface-diagnostic-toolkit-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this Microsoft website<\/a>. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WinObs\/status\/1072377693323304960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[German]Microsoft has released a new tool to help the user with problems (hardware, firmware and software) with his Surface devices. Here are a few details about that toolkit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[448],"tags":[650,157],"class_list":["post-7999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devices","tag-surface","tag-tool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/borncity.com\/win\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}