Microsoft Assessment and Planning (formerly Windows Vista Hardware Assessment)
Find out how this automated inventory and assessment tool can help your Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office migration projects and your virtualization deployments.
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FAQ for Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
Baldwin Ng - MAP ToolMSFTSaturday, February 28, 2009 1:06 AMThe latest Frequently-Asked-Questions (FAQ) page for the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit has been released. You will find answers to many common questions here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd450979.aspx
Thanks,
Baldwin Ng (MAP Toolkit, www.microsoft.com/MAP)Welcome to the Microsoft Assessment and Planning TechNet Forum
Baldwin Ng - MAP ToolMSFTWednesday, February 20, 2008 5:10 PMHi,
I'm Baldwin Ng, Sr. Product Manager from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team responsible for developing automated tools including Windows Optimized Desktop Scenarios Tool, Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides, and Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (or MAP).
This forum will help you ask questions or post answers to common questions on the operation of the MAP Toolkit. Please join the forum frequently as we continue to grow the MAP Toolkit users community for self-help and ideas exchange with the MAP Toolkit development team.Microsoft Assessment and Planning is an agent-less scalable inventory and assessment tool that can help you discover client machines and servers on your network and assess their readiness to migrate to Microsoft technologies such as:
- Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server
- Windows 7 and Windows Vista
- 2007 Microsoft Office
- Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Virtual Server 2005 R2
- Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid)
- SQL Server 2008
- Forefront Client Security and NAP
Imagine getting a series of technology proposals that are SPECIFIC to your environment in just a few hours! Please take advantage of this TechNet Forum to share best practice around the use of the MAP tool and ask questions if you run into any technical problems.
You can get a FREE DOWNLOAD of Microsoft Assessment and Planning here: http://www.microsoft.com/MAP
Or, visit our Team Blog to get more tips and tricks here: http://blogs.technet.com/MAPBLOG
Look forward to lively discussions!
Best Regards,
Baldwin Ng
Sr. Product Manager
Microsoft Assessment and Planning http://www.microsoft.com/MAP
Virtualization Solution Accelerators http://www.microsoft.com/VSANew Version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (version 4.0.2925) Now Available!
Baldwin Ng - MAP ToolMSFTThursday, August 20, 2009 3:22 PMMAP Toolkit Users,
If you are experiencing remote computer connectivity issues with the MAP toolkit (version 4.0.2920), you should try the latest release (version 4.0.2925) available from the Microsoft Download Center.
MAP Toolkit Team (mapfdbk@microsoft.com)
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MAP Toolkit (4.0.2925.0) available for download from the Microsoft Download Center
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MAP WMI status reports: Failed - other reasons
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Architecture
Syam Swetha Friday, October 30, 2009 5:04 AM - 2246

Is MAP Toolkit provides any services to fecth the inventory information from data base of MAPS Instance?
Syam Swetha Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:24 AM - 1154

MAP Inventory Wizard crashes.
Tom1212 Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:29 PM - 72195

Error with all Windows 2008 R2 assessments - Unknown - Cannot Determine CPU Address Width
Mark H3 Thursday, September 03, 2009 11:41 AM - 7635

MAP - Inventory and Assessment Wizard failed
HRBernd Monday, October 19, 2009 10:49 AM - 1290

MAP generated reports format and Customisation.
SangramK Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:02 AM - 5394

Inventory and Assesment Crashes - Please Help.
astroudjr Monday, October 12, 2009 7:48 PM - 3406

MAP w/ Office 2007, Interop, and Windows 7 = Won't start
SIOK_Online Thursday, October 15, 2009 6:25 AM - 71754

Logon Failure when connecting to another forest
BuggyRider Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:52 AM - 5441

Does MAP overwrite data information gathered from previous scans?
Fitzmatt Monday, October 12, 2009 9:41 PM - 3539

Cannot collect performance data from 1 server yet WMI passes connection tests ?
TheLastFreeName Thursday, October 15, 2009 5:35 PM - 1395

MAP 4.0 fr: When?
JDH-SAS Activanos Sunday, October 11, 2009 5:00 PM - 0295

MDT 2010
asman2k2 Monday, October 12, 2009 9:29 AM - 21158

installation error on MAP tool
rmsalim Saturday, October 03, 2009 7:59 AM - 11149

Error while installing Microsoft Assesment and Planning tool
Suheltt Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:50 AM - 11118

Server 2008 R2 Readiness Summary retuned Insufficient Data
jlindseth Tuesday, September 29, 2009 4:18 PM - 21710

.Net framework 3.5 cannot be detected
marvs06 Monday, September 21, 2009 1:09 AM - 31800

MAP 4.0.2925.0 can't connect to WinXP and WinXP x64 running in VMWare Workstation
MS.lucky Monday, September 14, 2009 7:53 AM

