Plan your Windows 8 deployment with the Map Toolkit.

We recently announced the release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 8.0.

The MAP Toolkit makes it easy to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. This Solution Accelerator provides a powerful inventory, assessment, and reporting tool to simplify the migration planning process. In this version of the MAP Toolkit, there has been numerous improvements to improve overall usability, to help you accelerate your migration to Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows Azure Virtual Machine, Office 2013, and Office 365.

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.

Download MAP 8 .0 Toolkit

Key features and benefits of MAP 8.0:

  • Determine readiness for Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8.
  • Assess environment for Office 2013.
  • Plan migration to Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
  • Track Lync Enterprise/Plus usage.

MAP Toolkit 8.0 adds following four new scenarios to help you plan your IT future while supporting your current business needs

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IMPORTANT: MAP Toolkit 8.0 does not support database upgrades from previous versions of the toolkit.

 

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