Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit for Windows 7 and
Internet Explorer 9The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (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.
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and Internet Explorer 9 Quickly and effectively collect the detailed infrastructure information you need for planning your migration to Windows 7 Enterprise. Create a client inventory report, let MAP analyze the data to assess your environment’s readiness, and access the following migration reports and proposals: - Hardware Inventory Proposal: Identifies currently installed Windows client operating systems and provides detailed analysis of your hardware and device compatibility and recommendations.
- PC Security Report: Identifies desktops with anti-virus and anti-malware programs installed and reports on the status of Windows Firewall.
With the MAP Toolkit, you also get the following reports and proposals for migration to Windows Internet Explorer 9: - Internet Explorer Migration Assessment Report: Identifies web browsers deployed on client computers in your environment, and provides details on the inventoried clients, browsers, Active X controls, and add-ons.
- Internet Explorer Migration Proposal: Summarizes the results of the assessment report, providing the information you need to migrate to Internet Explorer 9.
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What’s new with MAP 6.0?- Windows Azure migration portfolio analysis
Are you considering a move to the public cloud for your application portfolios? The application evaluation process for migration to the public cloud involves many tools and considerations. The MAP 6.0 Windows Azure migration portfolio analysis feature makes the process easier by providing the ability to quantify and label applications and services in your organization's IT environment for Windows Azure migration consideration. The Windows Azure migration portfolio analysis helps you: - Catalog all of the applications in your environment
- Estimate the needed capacity to run your applications on the Windows Azure platform
- Evaluate applications based on migration difficulty
- Stack rank applications in terms of migration suitability
- Obtain a TCO-ROI analysis for the application
Learn more - Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track onboarding
Planning your private cloud just got easier. Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Onboarding, an updated assessment available with MAP 6.5, provides consolidation guidance and validated configurations with preconfigured Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Infrastructures including computing power, network, and storage architectures. The updated feature provides more flexibility in planning private cloud migration by allowing users to customize computer powers and shared resources to accommodate workloads. Get a quick analysis of server consolidation on Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Infrastructures to help accelerate your planning of P2V migration to Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track.
Learn more - Enhanced heterogeneous server inventory
MAP has expanded its heterogeneous server environment inventory to include VMware Server, VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter. Inventory and reporting on the number of servers and guests deployed and managed by VMware infrastructure helps you identify migration opportunities and accelerates the migration planning process. SQL Server, SharePoint Server and Exchange Server run better on Hyper-V, so MAP 6.5 has the added capability of identifying Microsoft workloads deployed on VMware guests.
Learn more - Internet Explorer migration assessment updated for IE 9
Simplify your organization's migration to Windows 7 when you identify web browser compatibility issues prior to deployment. The MAP Internet Explorer migration assessment—now updated for Internet Explorer 9 migration—inventories your environment and reports on deployed web browsers, Microsoft ActiveX controls, and add-ons, and then generates a migration assessment report and proposal to give you the insight you need to plan a smooth Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9 migration.
Learn more - Office 365 client assessment
If you are considering a move to the cloud with Microsoft’s award-winning business productivity solutions, MAP 6.0 can help make your planning process easier and faster. An Office 365 client assessment evaluates the compatibility of Office suites deployed in your environment with Office 365, via a hardware and software readiness assessment. This assessment helps you quickly determine which client computers in your environment are ready to use Office 365. The tool obtains machine level detail about why a given computer is not capable of using Office 365, and identifies whether the Office suites currently being used in your environment are compatible with Office 365.
Learn more - Enhanced heterogeneous database inventory
MAP 5.5 brought you heterogeneous database inventory and reporting capability to help you accelerate migration to SQL Server from MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase instances. MAP 6.0 adds to this capability with Oracle schema discovery and reporting of the size and use of each schema. Reporting also provides an estimate of the complexity of migration and suggests candidates for migration to SQL Server. Use this information to determine the total cost of ownership in maintaining Oracle and the potential ROI from switching to SQL Server.
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What is the MAP Toolkit?The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. This versatile toolkit: - Quickly discovers clients, heterogeneous servers, and applications across your IT environment.
- Provides discovery and detailed inventory reporting of web application portfolios and database readiness for the Windows Azure Platform.
- Assesses Windows 2000 Server environments and legacy workloads to identify the potential business impact of maintaining legacy workloads, and the benefits of migration to Windows Server 2008 R2.
- Conducts migration and virtualization assessments for your IT projects.
- Provides analysis of consolidating servers on Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track infrastructures.
- Accurately assesses current software usage and client access history in your environment.
- Assesses hardware and software readiness for Office 365.
- Gathers database and server instance details across your organization for simplified database administration and SQL Server consolidation.
- Auto-generates reports and proposals.
- Scales well to small businesses as well as large enterprises.
Learn more about MAP | Case Studies-
Banque de Luxembourg virtualizes data centers for IT, business, and environmental benefits using the MAP Toolkit
- Virtualization solution helps Brazil’s
Central Bank cut power costs by 20 percent
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