Archive

Posts Tagged ‘MAP’

Get ready for Windows Server 2012 with new Solution Accelerators : MAP Toolkit

July 11, 2012 Leave a comment

Accelerate Windows Server 2012 readiness with MAP 7.0!

 Get ready for Windows Server 2012 with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 7.0. The latest version of the MAP Toolkit adds several new planning scenarios that help you build for the future with agility and focus while lowering the cost of delivering IT. New capabilities allow you to understand your readiness to deploy Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 in your environment.

Advertisement
Categories: Virtualization Tags: , ,

Simplify your cloud migration planning with MAP 6.0

July 19, 2011 Leave a comment

 

The latest release from the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) team provides organizations with tools to simplify public and private cloud migration planning.

Download the MAP Toolkit 6.0:http://www.microsoft.com/map

New features and benefits from MAP 6.0 release help you:

·        Analyze your portfolio of applications for a move to the Windows Azure Platform

·        Accelerate private cloud planning with Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track onboarding

·        Identify migration opportunities with enhanced  heterogeneous server environment inventory

·        Assess your client environment for Office 365 readiness

·        Determine readiness for migration to Windows Internet Explorer 9

·        Discover Oracle database  schemas for migration to SQL Server

Plan your organization’s migration to a private cloud with the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Assessment!

June 17, 2011 Leave a comment

Use the MAP Toolkit to plan your organization’s migration to a private cloud with the Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Assessment!

New MAP features  to:

  • Build portfolios of web applications and databases to migrate to Windows Azure and SQL Azure.
  • Assess your environment’s readiness for Office 365 or Internet Explorer 9
  • Identify and migrate databases from competing platforms like Oracle and MySQL to Microsoft SQL Server.
  • Consolidate your servers on to Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track Infrastructures

The beta of the MAP Toolkit v6.0 is now available. To get involved in the beta program

https://connect.microsoft.com/

 

 

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit new version now available‏

January 18, 2011 1 comment

The latest release from the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) team provides organizations with more assessments and reporting for simplified IT infrastructure planning.

Download the MAP Toolkit 5.5:
http://www.microsoft.com/map

Simplify planning for migration to the latest Microsoft products and technologies with the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5. This multifaceted tool is now even better—with assessment for easier migration to theWindows Azure platform,heterogeneous database discovery for SQL Server migration projects, Windows Internet Explorer migration assessment, and much more—MAP 5.5 includes new features to help you streamline planning for your next migration project.

Desktop migration projects are easier with the hardware assessment for Windows 7 and Internet Explorer. The MAP 5.5 Internet Explorer migration assessment inventories and reports on deployed web browsers, Microsoft ActiveX controls, and add-ons—and delivers the findings in a convenient migration assessment report and proposal.

Enhanced server consolidation features help users save time and effort when creating virtualization assessments and proposals. Enhancements include updated hardware libraries with the latest CPU models, data collection and store every five minutes, customized server selection, and greater scalability and reliability requiring less effort and oversight of the data collection process.MAP also helps accelerate SQL Server migration projects with heterogeneous database discovery for MySQL, Oracle, and Sybase instances