The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0 Beta. Download and join the MAP 7.0 Beta Members, bookmark this link to get the latest project details Get ready for the private cloud with the...

Symptom: When SQL Server 2008 or SQL Server 2008 R2 is installed on machine with SQL Server 2012, the MAP Toolkit might not be able to obtain the edition of the SQL Server database component. When this happens, the SQL Server Edition column in the SQLServerAssessment...

A document has been created to help customers determine SQL Server 2012 core licensing requirements for their deployed SQL Server databases, specifically at the time of their Software Assurance renewal. It provides guidance to help customers inventory...

MAP Toolkit 6.5 has been updated to assist with you with upgrading or migrating to Microsoft SQL Server 2012 . The SQL Server Proposal , SQL Server Assessment , and SQL Server Usage Tracking reports have been updated to display the information that is...

In this blog, I will provide the step-by-step instructions to discover Oracle, MySQL, Sybase on Unix and Linux machines. Additional Resources: An overview of the MAP Toolkit: http://microsoft.com/map The Getting Started Guide : http://download.microsoft...

  Summary: When you generate a MAP report that has the “Number of Cores” columns, you may notice these columns are empty. This is a problem that exists on Windows 2003 and Windows XP systems, since these operating systems shipped before multiple...

  Summary: Since the number of products discovered across an enterprise can easily exceed the row limit in Excel, the MAP Toolkit does not currently have a builtin report to list the products like it does for other types of reports. However, you...

In this blog, I will show you how you can use the MAP Toolkit to help you to migrate to the Database Consolidation Appliance (DBC). The MAP Toolkit provides an easy way to analyze your existing infrastructure and determine recommendations for migrating...

Symptom: Under some machine and network environments, the MAP Toolkit may cause the network to become saturated with activity and cause the machine running the MAP Toolkit to reboot. Cause: The MAP Toolkit has the ability to throttle itself on the machine...

In this blog, I will provide the step-by-step instructions to discover SQL Server across the Enterprise.  Additional Resources: An overview of the MAP Toolkit: http://microsoft.com/map The Getting Started Guide : http://download.microsoft.com/download...

In today’s episode, we welcome Peter Saddow, Sr. Program Manager from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team as he demos for us the Microsoft Assessment Planning Toolkit (MAP) for use with Office 365 deployments. See how the MAP Toolkit can help determine...

The latest version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.5—is now available for download. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can securely assess...

Along with the release of the MAP Toolkit 6.5 beta, we are making several surveys available to capture your experience with the MAP Toolkit. The information that we gather from the surveys will help us with future planning. Please take some time to complete...

The Solution Accelerators team is pleased to announce the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 6.5 Beta. Register for the beta and download MAP 6.5 Beta Simplify your cloud migration planning with MAP 6.5 Beta The journey to the cloud is now...

We are pleased to announce the next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0— is now available for download. Download MAP 6.0 Planning your journey to the cloud just got easier. The Microsoft Assessment...

We are pleased to announce the next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0— is now available for beta download. To participate, register for the MAP Toolkit 6.0 Beta at Microsoft Connect. Join the...

We launched MAP 5.5 couple of weeks ago. In the last blog, we explored on the Internet Explorer discovery scenario within the context of Windows7 deployment. In MAP 5.5, we extended the scope of MAP toolkit beyond the traditional server and desktop hardware...

Last week, in his blog " Identifying Browsers and Plugins That Might Represent a Risk" Gartner's Neil MacDonald stressed on the significance of MAP 5.5 Internet Explorer discovery scenario. With the proliferation of web browsers, and plugins such as...

We are pleased to announce the next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit-version 5.5- is now available for download. Download MAP 5.5 Simplify planning for migration to the latest Microsoft products and technologies...

We are pleased to announce the next version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit-version 5.5- is now available for beta download. To participate, register for the MAP Toolkit 5.5 Beta at Microsoft Connect. Join the MAP Beta. ...

In the last couple of posts, I discussed SQL server discovery feature as well as Software Usage tracking feature of MAP toolkit. In this blog, I would like to introduce you to some of the technical specifics of the MAP toolkit. What the MAP Toolkit...

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) team has released a new guide: Windows User State Virtualization (USV). The Infrastructure Planning and Design guide for Windows User State Virtualization (USV) helps IT get started with planning a Windows...

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit has a new Software usage tracking capability so that partners can help customers evaluate their Server and CAL licensing needs. This new Software usage tracking feature is a positive step forward to...

In the previous blog , Joyce discussed the MAP 5.0 features, specifically SQL server instances and databases discovery. Continuing the discussion, I would like to share with you the sample proposals and worksheets that the MAP 5.0 toolkit p rovides as...

We have announced the general availability of MAP 5.0 during Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC). We are excited to see strong response and following to MAP 5.0. In this blog, we would like to explore "SQL Server Consolidation report", one of the new features...