Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
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.
Announcements
FAQ for Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit
Baldwin Ng - MAP ToolMicrosoft EmployeeSaturday, February 28, 2009 1:06 AMThe latest Frequently-Asked-Questions (FAQ) page for the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is available on the TechNet Wiki:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/microsoft-assessment-and-planning-toolkit-frequently-asked-questions-faq.aspxMicrosoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5 Now Available
Michael Switzer [MSFT CSG] Monday, August 01, 2011 4:45 PMThe latest release from the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) team provides organizations with tools to simplify public and private cloud migration planning.
Download the MAP Toolkit 6.0: http://www.microsoft.com/map
Simplify your cloud migration planning with MAP 6.0
Planning your journey to the cloud just got easier. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.0 includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and private cloud platforms. With MAP 6.0, you now have the ability to identify workloads and estimate the infrastructure size and resources needed for both Windows Azure and Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track. Also, new to MAP 6.0, is an Office 365 client assessment, enhanced VMware inventory, and Oracle schema discovery and reporting. Expanded assessment and discovery capabilities from MAP help you simplify planning for your next migration project. Plan what's next with MAP.
New features and benefits from MAP 6.0 release help you:
• Analyze your portfolio of applications for a move to the Windows Azure Platform
• Accelerate private cloud planning with Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track onboarding
• Identify migration opportunities with enhanced heterogeneous server environment inventory
• Assess your client environment for Office 365 readiness
• Determine readiness for migration to Windows Internet Explorer 9
• Discover Oracle database schemas for migration to SQL Server
Learn more
Visit the MAP home page: http://www.microsoft.com/map
Get the latest news straight from the MAP team: http://blogs.technet.com/mapblog
MAP works with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Security Compliance Manager to help you plan, securely deploy, and manage new Microsoft technologies —easier, faster, and at less cost. Learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/solutionaccelerators.
Follow Solution Accelerators on Twitter to get the latest tips and updates:@MSSolutionAccel
Welcome to the Microsoft Assessment and Planning TechNet Forum
Baldwin Ng - MAP ToolMicrosoft EmployeeWednesday, 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/VSAJoin the Beta program! Help make MAP BETTER!
Michael Switzer [MSFT CSG] Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:25 AMTo join the beta program, simply follow these steps and help us make MAP the best it can be!
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Go to http://connect.microsoft.com and click “Sign In” (in the upper right of the page)
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If you are not already registered with Microsoft® Connect, it will guide you through a quick (and free) registration process
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Make sure you say “yes” to being contacted about participating in new Microsoft Connect programs or you won’t get an email notification for future MAP beta programs.
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Once you have completed the registration, sign in to Microsoft® Connect
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Search for "Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit"
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Click join and you will be notified of beta programs and opportunities!
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Filtering and SortingUse these options to narrow down the question and discussion list.
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How to get a list of applications discovered out of MAP
Michael Switzer [MSFT CSG] Thursday, February 02, 2012 1:46 AM - 23820

mutimedia audio controller
dtown007 Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:25 AM - 1108

DPAPI Account Reset Problem
DevRat90 Monday, May 21, 2012 11:53 PM - 62448

The MAP (6.5) Toolkit setup wizard failed - ErrorCode 1603. Any ideas welcome please?
SASAND.com Wednesday, December 14, 2011 1:28 PM - 3253

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit version 6.5.4229.01
jaytaba Thursday, May 17, 2012 1:07 PM - 1222

Assessment Failed
hedo01 Thursday, May 17, 2012 6:01 PM - 5375

Hardware configuration
gautehan Monday, May 14, 2012 9:13 AM - 3206

Inventory of Machines in Workgroup - Account Details
LawsyR1 Thursday, May 17, 2012 2:31 AM - 2217

Trying to view my MAP Reports, keep getting location error.
TerenceJB Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:41 PM - 3790

MAP 6.5 not collecting perfomance data from windows servers 2003 std it
Angelo.O Friday, May 04, 2012 7:25 AM - 0381

windows media player 11 reads the album info in squares
Caldronis Thursday, May 10, 2012 6:56 PM - 34331

remove\delete machines with machine type of 'insufficient data'
Andy_McD Tuesday, January 18, 2011 7:27 PM - 91650

Assessment is failing
Benyon35 Thursday, March 15, 2012 7:28 PM - 1448

Failed to migrate dependent packages
Jim_Anderson Thursday, May 03, 2012 7:36 PM - 31028

WMI Status Access Denied
krisl100 Wednesday, April 18, 2012 7:11 PM - 4548

Can MAP 6.5 be scheduled for inventory computers later
Parvez AkkasMicrosoft Community ContributorMonday, April 30, 2012 6:06 PM - 1529

Running MAP Toolkit
Jain Gaurav Monday, April 30, 2012 9:02 AM - 41312

MAP and Windows 7
Omar A. G. Dweik Friday, April 06, 2012 11:00 AM - 3909

MAP is finding SQL Instances that don't exist
MtL1900 Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:28 PM - 1668

Map scan connection timed out
krisl100 Wednesday, April 18, 2012 3:56 PM

