Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Beta 2 now open!

We're happy to announce that the beta for the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is now open.

We encourage you to join the beta review program and help influence the development of the toolkit. To participate, register for the MAP Toolkit 5.0 Beta 2 at Microsoft Connect.

The MAP Toolkit 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. This Solution Accelerator performs an inventory of heterogeneous server environments and provides you with usage information for servers in the Core CAL Suite and SQL Server, SQL Server 2008 discovery and assessment for consolidation, Windows 2000 Server migration recommendations, and a readiness assessment for the most widely used Microsoft technologies-now including Office 2010.

Is your organization spending valuable resources planning its IT infrastructure? Participate in the MAP Toolkit 5.0 Beta 2. Take an early look at this release, and provide timely feedback to help ensure that our development team best meets your needs.

Next steps:

The beta 2 will run through mid-June. That means now is the time to join the beta program, preview this toolkit, and provide us with your feedback.