Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 8.0 Now Available for Download

Microsoft has made the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 8.0 (MAP Toolkit 8.0) available for download. MAP Toolkit 8.0 makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. It provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the migration planning process.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop, server and cloud migrations. 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.

MAP Toolkit 8.0 contains numerous improvements to improve overall usability, to help you accelerate your migration to Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows Azure Virtual Machine, Office 2013, and Office 365.

The New MAP User Interface

Download Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 8.0:
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 8.0 is available here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7826

The MAP Toolkit 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.

System requirements:

• Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8 Pro, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Ultimate

Hardware Requirements:
A computer with at least the following minimum configuration:

• A dual-core 1.5GHz processor
• 2.0 GB of RAM
• 1 GB of available disk space
• Network adapter card
• Graphics adapter that supports 1024x768 or higher resolution. At 1024x768, using a DPI setting of more than 100% is not supported. At higher resolutions, DPI settings higher than 100% are supported.

Note: Inventory, assessment, and reporting performance are based primarily on the speed of the CPU and the amount of available RAM.

The full details of Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 8.0 system requirements available here.

Reference:
The MAP blog