Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit for Windows Azure Platform

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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
• 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. Learn more

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