How to create a Shared Resource Tree (SRT) on a Windows BMR Boot server that does not have internet access.

Description

A Windows BMR Boot Server requires the Microsoft ADK (Application Development Kit) to be installed in order to make BMR Shared Resource Tree. On machines that have internet access, the one-time install will be automated when the first Shared Resource Tree is created. If the boot server machine does not have internet access - then the ADK must be downloaded via another machine that does have internet access and then the install media be shared or copied to the intended boot server.

Creating a SRT will present the following,

 At this point; stop and follow the instructions for offline below.

Figure 1.

On the machine that does have internet access (this does not have to have Netbackup software installed):

Go to and download “adksetup.exe”

https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?LinkId=526740

Note:- That this adksetup.exe is only a few MB and is a "stub" to get further download and is the second and larger download that is needed for the non-internet boot server.

Now run the adksetup.exe on the "internet" machine in order to download the whole install media from Microsoft (will be approximately 4.4 GB ).

Copy all the files downloaded from the machine with internet to the intended BMR Boot server without internet:

For example:- 

From: Internet machine: C:\Users\Administrator\Downloads\Windows Kits\10\ADK\

To: Intended boot server without internet e.g. D:\windowsADKinstall\

Return to the dialog in figure 1 and choose "Next" and when prompted for the path use the location on the Boot server where the full MS ADK was copied to e.g. D:\windowsADKinstall\

Creation of the SRT on the "non-internet" machine will now proceed and install the ADK

Once done, check windows control panel for ADK version 10.1.14393.0

- thereafter follow the prompts to create the Shared Resource Tree (SRT). These steps will be the same as those for a Boot Server that has internet access.

Note:- One option is the prompt to install Netbackup Client software into the SRT. The version of the Client software used will determine the version of the SRT and should match the version of the client to be restored that was in place at it's backup time.

Related article:

Netbackup BMR (Bare Metal Restore) fails to install ADK 8.1 while creating the first SRT on a BMR boot server, "Installation of Windows ADK failed to due to network failure"

https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/article.100050443