Microsoft has released a set of Surface Tools for IT, that help IT Pro’s and users of Surface devices in the enterprise sector. As the adoption of Surface in business keeps rising, such tools become quite useful in the corporate setup, as they can help IT Professionals deploy, manage and secure a Surface device in their organization.
Surface Tools for IT
This bunch of downloads for Surface devices includes the following tools:
- Surface Data Eraser Installer
- Surface Deployment Accelerator
- Surface Diagnostic Toolkit
- Surface Dock Updater
- Cisco EAP Supplicant Installer
Once you click on the red Download button, you can select the tools you wish to download. You may select one or all. Some require to be installed, whereas some do not.
These tools are supported on Surface devices running Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Pro, Windows 8.1 Enterprise and above. That is, they are supported on Surface Book, Surface Pro, Surface LTE, Surface, etc.
Go here to get them. You can integrate these tools to your custom image used for enterprise deployments.
How do I download Surface Diagnostic Toolkit?
As it is a native Microsoft application, you can find it on the official website. That said, Surface Diagnostic Toolkit is available to download from the support.microsoft.com website. It is free, and you can use it on the Windows 11 and Windows 10 OS.
What are Surface tools?
Multiple Surface Tools are available for different purposes. For example, Surface Tools for IT help you manage, deploy, and secure devices in an organization. On the other hand, the Surface Diagnostic Toolkit helps you diagnose problems on your Surface device. Therefore, you need to download and use the respective Surface Tools according to the problem or purpose.