Kurt Shintaku's Blog

If you are interested in assessing your IT infrastructure and planning to migrate to:

• Windows Server 2008
• Hyper-V
• Virtual Server 2005 R2
• SQL Server
• Windows Vista
• 2007 Microsoft Office
• Microsoft Application Virtualization

…you should give this assessment and planning tool a try.

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator is an agentless toolkit that will find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using:
– Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI)
– the Remote Registry Service
– the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

Using this data, MAP will assess and report whether computers can run Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid). Assessments for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista also include device driver availability and recommendations for hardware upgrades that may be required.

MAP includes features for gathering performance metrics from computers you are considering for consolidation using Hyper-V in addition to Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2. Using the performance metrics and a model virtual server host computer, you can generate reports that recommend placement of the physical servers in a virtual server environment.Other new reports include a Security Center Assessment for client computers, a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 inventory report as well as an enhanced virtual machine inventory report to help you assess your virtualization efforts to date.

DOWNLOAD: 
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=111000

Read more about MAP: http://www.microsoft.com/MAP

View demos on Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/MAPBLOG