The MAP Toolkit is used for multi-product assessment and planning. It assesses a network environment using agentless data collection technologies to gather inventory and performance information. Then provides assessment reports to aid organizations with their IT infrastructure planning.

The main areas of planning covered by MAP:

• Migration Planning
• Consolidation/Virtualization
• Private/Public Cloud Planning
• Software Usage Tracking

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is part of the Microsoft Solution Accelerators that provide tested guidance and automated tools to help plan, deploy, and manage new Microsoft technologies. They are all freely available, and fully-supported by Microsoft.



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MAP Toolkit Getting Started Guide

What is the MAP Toolkit?

Why choose the MAP Toolkit?

How to use the MAP Toolkit.

Where to get Information, Help, and Assistance for MAP







Phase 1:  Choose your MAP Toolkit Goal

Phase 2:  Gather your Data collection requirements

• Credentials for MAP
• Choose a MAP Discovery Method

• MAP FAQ
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – Collector Technologies
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – Firewall Ports
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – WMI
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – SSH
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – PowerShell
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – SQL Native-SQL Windows
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – VMware
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – Active Directory
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – Oracle
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – Remote Registry Service
• MAP: Prepare the Environment – Additional Considerations
• MAP: Performance Data
• Manually Install SQL Server for Use with MAP Toolkit
• Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Inventory Status Messages
• How does Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) discover Exchange servers?

MAP How-To Topics

• MAP to tell difference of a SQL in production vs evaluation
• Increasing the SQL database timeout value
• MAP: How to Interpret the Inventory Collection Status Screen
• MAP: How to use log files in the MAP Toolkit
• MAP: How to Enter Multiple Log File Paths for Log Parsing
• MAP: How to inventory your VMware environment
• Navigating the MAP Toolkit

External Links

• MAP TechNet Forum
• MAP Team Blog
• MAP Microsoft site
• Whitepapers:  Software Usage Tracking with the MAP Toolkit
• Privacy Statement
• MAP demo: Deployment planning for Windows Server 2008 R2 and server consolidation assessment with Hyper-V