Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0 Final Released

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0 Final is now available for download. MAP Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the migration planning process.

MAP Toolkit is an agentless inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess IT environments for various platform migrations-including Windows 8, Windows 7, Office 2010 and Office 365, Windows Server 2012 and Windows 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, Hyper-V, Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track, and Windows Azure.

MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive proposals with extensive hardware and software information, and actionable recommendations to help organizations accelerate their IT infrastructure planning process, and gather more detail on assets that reside within their current environment. MAP also provides server utilization data for Hyper-V server virtualization planning; identifying server placements, and performing virtualization candidate assessments, including ROI analysis for server consolidation with Hyper-V.

MAP is one of the tools provided by the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and Security Compliance Manager provide tested guidance and automated tools to help organizations plan, securely deploy, and manage new Microsoft technologies-easier, faster, and at less cost. All are freely available, and fully-supported by Microsoft.

Key features and benefits of MAP 7.0 Final:
Key features and benefits of MAP help you:

• Understand your readiness to deploy Windows in your environment with hardware and device readiness assessments.
• Determine Windows Server 2012 readiness.
• Investigate how Windows Server and System Center can manage your heterogeneous environment through VMware migration and Linux server virtualization assessments.
• Size your desktop virtualization needs for both Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and session-based virtualization using Remote Desktop Services.
• Ready your information platform for the cloud with the SQL Server 2012 discovery and migration assessment.
• Evaluate your licensing needs with usage tracking for Lync 2010, active users and devices, SQL Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012

Download MAP 7.0 Final:
The links in this section correspond to files available for this download. Download the files appropriate for you.

• Getting_Started_Guide.en.doc (579 KB) Download
• MAP_Sample_Documents.zip (2.6 MB) Download
• Microsoft_Assessment_and_Planning_Toolkit_Setup.exe (70.6 MB) Download
• readme.en.htm (26 KB) Download

The MAP 7.0 Final includes the following components:

• Microsoft_Assessment_and_Planning_Toolkit_Setup.exe: Installation package containing the tool, release notes, Getting Started Guide and toolkit help (chm file).
• readme_en.htm: Available as a separate download. Provides information to read before installing the MAP Toolkit, including installation prerequisites and known issues.
• Getting_Started_Guide.en.doc: Provides information about toolkit installation, environment preparation, and assessment scenarios supported by toolkit wizards and the UI.
• MAP_Sample_Documents.zip: Available as a separate download. Contains sample reports and proposals.

More information including install instructions and system requirements of MAP 7.0 can be found in the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit website.

Source:

• Download Details - Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit