Microsoft has announced the general availability of version 9.0 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit and can be downloaded from the Microsoft Download website. MAP Toolkit 9.0 comes with a number of new scenarios including Server and Cloud Enrollment, and Remote Desktop Usage Tracking. It also adds support for software inventory via Software ID tags.
Overview
The 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.
The MAP Toolkit includes the following components:
- MAPSetup.exe: Installation package containing the tool and SQL LocalDB.
- readme_en.htm: Available as a separate download. Provides information to read before installing the MAP Toolkit, including installation prerequisites and known issues.
- MAP_Sample_Documents.zip: Available as a separate download. Contains sample reports and proposals.
- MAP_Training_Kit.zip: Available as a separate download. Contains sample database and instructions for completing various exercises.
Download Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 9.0
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What's new in Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 9.0?
The MAP Toolkit 9.0 helps increase the agility and cost effectiveness of deploying the latest Microsoft technologies. It also enhances usage tracking to include accounting for Remote Desktop Services as well as Server and Cloud Enrollment licensed deployments. MAP 9.0 additionally helps organizations assess their environment for Office 2013 and Office 365, track usage of Windows Server 2012, Lync Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013, System Center Configuration Manager 2012, and SQL Server 2012. The Windows Azure assessment report has also been updated to include the latest Azure sizing.
Here are some key features of MAP Toolkit 9.0:
New Server and Cloud Enrollment scenario helps to simplify adoption
Server and Cloud Enrollment (SCE) is a new offering under the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement that enables subscribers to standardize broadly on one or more Microsoft Server and Cloud technologies. The MAP Toolkit 9.0 features an assessment scenario to identify and inventory SCE supported products within an enterprise and help streamline enrollment.
New Remote Desktop Services Licensing Usage Tracking scenario creates a single view for enterprise wide licensing
With an increase in enterprises deploying Remote Desktop Services (RDS) across wider channels, RDS license management has become a focus point for organizations. With the new RDS Licensing scenario, the MAP Toolkit rolls up license information enterprise-wide into a single report, providing a simple alternative for assessing your RDS licensing position.
Support for software inventory via Software ID tags now available
As part of the Microsoft effort to support ISO 19770-2, the MAP Toolkit now supports inventory of Microsoft products by Software ID (SWID) tag. SWID enhanced reports will provide greater accuracy and assist large, complex environments to better manage their software compliance efforts by simplifying the software identification process and lowering the cost of managing software assets.
Improved Usage Tracking data collection for SQL Server Usage Tracking scenarios
Usage Tracking for SQL Server 2012 has been enhanced to use User Access Logging (UAL). UAL is a standard protocol in Windows Server 2012 that collects User Access information in near real time and stores the information in a local database, eliminating the need for log parsing to perform Usage Tracking assessments. UAL vastly improves the speed and helps to eliminate long lead times for environment preparation associated with running Usage Tracking assessments.
For more information about the MAP Toolkit, see the Getting Started Guide.
System Requirements
Supported Operating System:
- Windows 8 (Professional and Enterprise editions only)
- Windows 7 with SP1 (Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions only)
- Windows Vista with SP2 (Business, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions only)
- Windows Server 2012
- Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
- Windows Server 2008 with SP2
- .NET Framework 4.5 (Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.1)
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.
References:
Microsoft Solution Accelerators
Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit Team Blog
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