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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Frequently Asked Questions Q: I’m facing challenges with planning my IT infrastructure—can the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit help? A: Yes, MAP provides detailed discovery and inventory of heterogeneous IT infrastructure to help make the following IT planning projects faster and easier: Migration to Windows 7, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft Office 2010, Windows Server 2008 R2, and the Windows Azure platform Planning for Hyper-V server virtualization PC security assessment and migration planning for Microsoft Forefront Client Security SQL Server consolidation, and migration to SQL Server 2008 R2 from legacy SQL Server database instances including SQL Server 2000, and heterogeneous databases including MySQL, Oracle and Sybase Assessment of current software usage and client access history for simplified software asset management Q: What is the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit? A: The MAP Toolkit is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop and server migrations and upgrades. Learn more: www.microsoft.com/map Q: How can the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit help me in my business? MAP provides detailed readiness assessment reports, executive proposals with extensive hardware and application information, and actionable recommendations for shortening the time it takes to plan your migration. 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. Q: What’s new in the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.5? A: New features added to the latest MAP v5.5 release include the following: 1 Assess your environment for migration to Windows 7 and Windows Internet Explorer 8 (or the latest version). Are you looking for a tool to simplify your organization's migration to Windows 7 and Windows Internet Explorer 8—and, in turn, benefit from improved desktop security, reliability and manageability? The MAP 5.5 Internet Explorer migration assessment inventories your environment and reports on deployed web browsers, Microsoft ActiveX controls, and add-ons, and then generates a migration assessment report and proposal—information you need to more easily migrate to Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 8 (or the latest version). Identify and analyze web application and database readiness for migration to the Windows Azure platform. Simplify your move to the cloud with the MAP 5.5 automated discovery and detailed inventory reporting on web application and database readiness for the Windows Azure platform. MAP identifies web applications, IIS servers, and SQL Server databases, analyzes their performance characteristics, and estimates resources required such as the number of Windows Azure compute instances, number of SQL Azure databases, bandwidth usage, and storage. Discover heterogeneous database instances for migration to SQL Server. Now with heterogeneous database inventory and reporting capability, MAP 5.5 helps you accelerate migration to SQL Server from MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase instances. Enhanced server consolidation assessments for Hyper-V. Enhanced server consolidation capabilities help save time and effort when creating virtualization assessments and proposals. Enhancements include: o Updated hardware libraries, allowing you to select from the latest Intel and AMD processors for more accurate server consolidation placements. o Data collection and store every five minutes for more accurate reporting and analysis. o Greater scalability and reliability, requiring less effort and oversight of the data collection process. o Significant usability enhancements, enabling easier configuration of the server consolidation planning process. Q: What resources are available to help me learn how to use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit? A: Visit the Learning Resources for Solution Accelerators site to access featured resources for MAP and other Solution Accelerators. This collection of getting started 2 guides, scripted demos, presentation decks, video tutorials, and customizable data sheets will help you get the most out of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. Learn more: www.microsoft.com/satresource Q: Where do I go to download the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, and how much does it cost? A: Solution Accelerators are freely available and fully-supported from Microsoft. Download the MAP Toolkit: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=158988; or visit the Microsoft Download Center for a complete list of supporting items: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=111000. Q: Has the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit been tested, and is it supported? A: All Solution Accelerators are fully tested and supported by Microsoft. Q: Is the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit available in other languages? A: Solution Accelerators are currently available only in English. If you’d like to see Solution Accelerators in other languages, please email [email protected]. Q: Where can I ask questions and give my feedback on the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit? A: Questions and feedback are welcomed and appreciated at [email protected]. Q: What other Solution Accelerators are available to help me? A: MAP is just one of the tools provided by the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, and Security Compliance Manager provide tested guidance and automated tools to help you plan, securely deploy, and manage new Microsoft technologies—easier, faster, and at less cost. Learn more: www.microsoft.com/solutionaccelerators 3