How are you doing with the IT Chaos?
It happens from small to big business, family or personal IT labs at home, and of course depending on that size the complexity can go really wild.
I am talking about the spreading of servers, applications, client workstations, mobile machines, routers, devices, printers, and the list can go on at its peak when the manager, the boss or whomever is in charge of questioning: how do we get more efficient with current IT resources before we continue investing? or start a new planning cycle?, or reviewing what is really critical or not in order to optmize what IT has to provide services?. Very familiar, with this day to day chaos right?...there are some good news though that we can use to have a good start on understandingwaht is available waht we have.
You need to check a MAP, not a map in Live Search Maps, but "Microsoft Assesment and Planning Toolkit 3.2". I am sure you won't even finish reading the whole TechNet details about MAP when you will be conviced in how much help this will do to you, your company or your customer when inventory and reporting assets available but not only that, you will also have system based recommendations on how to get your infrastrured optmized. So, no more talk from my side, more time to you to:
Get on eval program and download the toll Microsoft Connect
See how others have used it and benefit from it: Costco Wholesale Corporation, Continental Airlines, Banque de Luxembourg
Give your feedback to the product team MAPSBETA@microsoft.com
Enjoy, I am sure this tool will save you a lot of worries, it might also bring some new ones but you will convert them into opportunities to fix :- )
Cheers!
