Archive for the ‘MAP’ Category

MAP Toolkit saturates low-bandwidth networks or causes the machine running MAP to reboot (2012-1-6)

Source:  Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit Team Blog Symptom/Cause: MAP creates a worker thread to request information from a target machine. The number of simultaneous worker threads created is dependent on CPU and Memory availability, but MAP has a cap that prevents it from maxing out a CPU and will throttle itself if it [...]

Simplify your cloud migration planning with MAP 6.5 (2011-12-7)

The journey to the cloud is now smoother than ever with the MAP Toolkit 6.5. The MAP Toolkit’s new capabilities help users to securely assess heterogeneous IT environments while enabling the evaluation of workloads for migration to Microsoft’s private and public cloud platforms. Consolidate existing server workloads using the updated Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track [...]

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5 Beta (2011-10-25)

  As we know the map tools they will get better all the time, better with inventory, virtualization, Security. the MAP 6.5 toolkitis a must for every good inventory, and it is free. set it up on a VM and test the product. The Microsoft® Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit helps you understand your current [...]

Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.5 (2011-1-18)

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 the Windows Azure platform,heterogeneous database discovery for SQL Server migration projects, Windows Internet Explorer migration assessment, and [...]

MAP Beta Program (2010-5-25)

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is an agentless tool designed to simplify and streamline the IT infrastructure planning process across multiple scenarios through network-wide automated discovery and assessments. This Solution Accelerator performs an inventory of heterogeneous server environments and provides you with usage information for servers in the Core CAL Suite and [...]

Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) 4.0 And Beta 5.0 (2010-5-4)

  Microsoft Security Assessment Tool The Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) is a free tool designed to help organizations like yours assess weaknesses in your current IT security environment, reveal a prioritized list of issues, and help provide specific guidance to minimize those risks. MSAT is an easy, cost-effective way to begin strengthening the security [...]