[Microsoft Solution Accelerators] Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 7.0 Available

The Solution Accelerators Team has released Microsoft Assessement Planning and Toolkit 7.0


The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop, server and cloud migrations. MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports and executive proposals with extensive hardware and software information, and actionable recommendations to help organizations accelerate their IT infrastructure planning process, and gather more detail on assets that reside within their current environment. MAP also provides server utilization data for Hyper-V server virtualization planning; identifying server placements, and performing virtualization candidate assessments, including ROI analysis for server consolidation with Hyper-V.

The latest version of the MAP Toolkit adds eight new scenarios to help you plan your IT future while supporting your current business needs. Included scenarios help you to:

• Plan your deployment of Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 with hardware and infrastructure readiness assessments
• Size your desktop virtualization needs for both Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and session-based virtualization using Remote Desktop Services
• Ready your information platform for the cloud with SQL Server 2012
• Virtualize your existing Linux servers onto Hyper-V
• Identify opportunities to lower your virtualization costs with Hyper-V using the VMware migration assessment
• Assess user and device access for Lync 2010 Standard licensing

Key features and benefits of MAP 7.0 help you:

• Determine your readiness for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8
• Migrate your VMware-based virtual machines to Hyper-V
• Size your server environment for desktop virtualization
• Simplify migration to SQL Server 2012
• Evaluate your licensing needs for Lync 2010
• Determine active users and devices

For more informations about this really great tool : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx

And here is the link for downloaded all the ressources about MAP : http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?&id=7826

FAQ : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/1643.microsoft-assessment-and-planning-toolkit-frequently-asked-questions-faq-en-us.aspx

Forum : http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/map/threads