In the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0, there have been several improvements to improve efficiency of discovering SQL Server throughout your organization. In MAP 7.0, we changed the SQL Server scenario to collect less information about...

In todays blog, I will show you how to capture usage tracking information for Lync 2010 with the MAP Toolkit. This information can help you determine which licensing model is best for you. This new feature provides coverage for Microsoft servers, including...

In this topic, we will cover the final step in the Desktop Virtualization scenario in MAP 7.0 – the Desktop Virtualization Planning wizard.  Using this wizard, you will be able to generate virtual machine and session based desktop density comparisons...

Today, we are going to kickoff a short series that covers a new feature in MAP v7.0 – the Desktop Virtualization Planning scenario.  This is a very broad topic covering everything from virtualization of the operating system, application virtualization...

In our next two topics in this series, we will cover the capacity planning related features in the MAP toolkit 7.0. For those of you who have used the server consolidation features in MAP, a few of these steps will seem familiar. There a couple of new...

  Windows 8 has reached Release Preview milestone recently, you can download and try Windows 8 Release Preview in your environment from http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/download . In this post, I will be discussing about Windows 8 Readiness...