Microsoft Assessment and Planning (formerly Windows Vista Hardware Assessment)

Объявления

• FAQ for Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

  Baldwin Ng - MAP ToolMSFT28 февраля 2009 г. 1:06
  The 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)

• NEW! Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP) is now available.

  Eric Haberman 1MSFT12 ноября 2009 г. 18:21

  NEW! Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Community Technical Preview (CTP) is now available.

  
  • Register for the MAP Toolkit 5.0 CTP and download. (Live ID required)

   

  Come and help us test all the exciting new features!

   

  What’s New with version 5.0 CTP?
  The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 CTP includes the following new features:

  
  • Heterogeneous Server Environment Inventory for Linux / UNIX

  • Ability to determine usage of System Center Configuration Manager

  • Office 2010 Readiness Assessment.

   

  This version includes fixes for the following issues:

  Supports Office 2010 for setup and reporting

  Corrects “Out of memory” errors encountered when running MAP on large WAN environments

  Windows Server 2008 R2 report provides better messaging when inventorying previous versions of Windows Server, trying to determine if the hardware supports 64-bit or not.

  Inventory performance improvements, better messaging for inventory failures.

• Welcome to the Microsoft Assessment and Planning TechNet Forum

  Baldwin Ng - MAP ToolMSFT20 февраля 2008 г. 17:10
  Hi,
  
  

  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/VSA