Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 9.2 is available

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (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.

Download Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 9.2
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What's new in Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 9.2?
The version 9.2 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit provides agentless discovery, inventory and assessment for a variety of scenarios. Some of the key features in this release are:

Azure VM Capacity assessment to include assessment for A8 and A9 Azure VMs
MAP 9.2 updated Windows Azure VM Capacity assessment to include assessment for A8 and A9 Azure VMs. A8 and A9 Azure VMs are processor intensive and thus have a base processor of an Intel Xeon E5-2670 2.6 GHz.

Included Windows Server 2008(x86/x64) under Legacy Server Discovery
Windows Server 2008(x86/x64) included under Legacy Server Discovery in addition to Windows Servers 2000, 2003 and Itanium. For example, before MAP 9.2 the discovery of the Legacy Servers which were added are Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003(x86/x64) and Itanium Windows Server. Now MAP 9.2 includes the discovery of Windows Server 2008(x86/x64) as well to the collection of Legacy Server Discovery.

Improved Legacy Server Discovery reporting by including OS Architecture
In this version of MAP we included OS Architecture(32 or 64 bit) as an expansion in the Legacy Server Discovery reporting.

Collection of additional performance counters and included CPU speed
In this version of MAP we added four new performance counters Disk Queue Length, Disk Read Queue Length, Disk Write Queue Length, Disk Bytes/sec and expanded performance collection process to accomodate the new counters and assessment process. Added CPU Speed(GHz) to Performance Metric Summary report.

For more information about the MAP Toolkit, see the MAP Toolkit 9.0 RTM.

Version History
MAP 9.2: (Release Date: February 2015)
  • Updated Windows Azure VM Capacity assessment to include assessment for A8 and A9 Azure VMs.
  • Added support for the discovery and reporting of Legacy Server Discovery to include Windows Server 2008(x86/x64).
  • Added support for the reporting of Legacy Server Discovery to include OS Architecture.
  • Added support for the reporting of Metric Types: Disk Queue Length, Disk Read Queue Length, Disk Write Queue Length, Disk Bytes/sec along with CPU speed to Performance Metric Summary.

MAP 9.1:
  • Added support for the discovery and reporting of Windows 8.1.
  • Added support for the discovery and reporting of Windows Server 2012 R2.
  • Added support for the discovery and reporting of SQL Server 2014.
  • Added Windows Server 2012 R2 as a platform option for the Server Consolidation feature sceanrio.
  • Added the requirement for MAP to run under elevated permissions back in to the software.
  • Kindly asked many bugs to leave.

Screenshots:

MAP 9.2.292.0

MAP: Overview


MAP - Data Collection

MAP: Desktop

Reference:
Microsoft Solution Accelerators

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