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Microsoft Security Assessment Tool (MSAT) 4.0 And Beta 5.0

 

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 of your computing environment and your business. Begin the process by taking a snapshot of your current security state, and then use MSAT to continuously monitor your infrastructure’s ability to respond to security threats.

At Microsoft, the security of our customers’ networks, business servers, end-user computers, mobile devices, and data assets are a top priority. We are committed to providing security tools like MSAT to help you improve the security state of your business.

Microsoft Assessment and Planning

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 5.0 Beta 1

Beta review program now open!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE MAP 5.0 BETA 1

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, a data center infrastructure assessment survey, and a readiness assessment for the most widely used Microsoft technologies—now including Office 2010.

What’s new with version 5.0?

The MAP Toolkit 5.0 Beta 1 includes the following new features:

Heterogeneous Server Environment Inventory: The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit performs a network inventory of IT assets remotely without the use of agents, identifying heterogeneous server environments consisting of Windows Server and Linux operating systems, including those running in a virtual environment. MAP 5.0 also automates the discovery of Linux-powered LAMP stacks.

Software Usage Tracking: Right-size your IT with the MAP Toolkit 5.0. MAP 5.0’s new usage tracking feature provides consistent software usage reports for Microsoft servers, including Windows Server, SharePoint, and System Center Configuration Manager. Run updated reports whenever you need to accurately assess the current software usage and client access history in your environment. This will reduce your time and administrative costs for managing software and Server and Client Access License (CAL) licensing assets, and ensures that you pay only for the licenses you use.

Microsoft Office 2010 Readiness Assessment: Streamline your migration to Office 2010 with MAP 5.0’s hardware compatibility proposal document. The actionable recommendations and assessments presented shorten the time it takes to plan your Office 2010 migration.

Data Center Infrastructure Assessment Survey: Use this survey in the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 to assess the components needed to design the storage and networking infrastructure for the Dynamic Infrastructure Toolkit for System Center.

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Risk and Health Assessment Program RAP

There are some tools that are hard to find but gives you a overview of a site. there are testing tools for Exchange,SQL,AD,Windows,Clustering.

Keep in mind that these download packages are intended for Microsoft Premier customers only. But everyone can download and use the tools.

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If you run the tools it looks like this Below is the WDRAP It is an easy next next finish application but the result is more complex this is where the errors are.

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You can import desktops by text file , mine is not in a domain so I can do only a local test.

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There are Several Tools that you can use

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Exchange Server ( ExRAP ) – Scoping Tool v1.2

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Active Directory (ADRAP). – Scoping Tool v1.4

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft SQL Server (SQLRAP). – Scoping Tool v1.2

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Cluster Server (CSRAP) – Scoping Tool v1.3

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Cluster Server Datasheet

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSSRAP) – Scoping Tool v2.0

MOSS Configuration
Customizations ,Farm Topology ,Search ,Security
Operational Excellence
Change Management ,Database ,Disaster Recovery ,Monitoring ,Search ,Service Level Agreement High
Server Configuration
Antivirus ,Database ,Event Logs ,Farm Topology ,IIS Information ,Load Balancing ,Network ,OS Information ,Security
Server Health
Antivirus ,Customizations ,Event Logs ,IIS Information ,Performance ,Security , Security Updates

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Datasheet

Risk and Health Assessment Program for Windows Desktop (WDRAP) – Scoping Tool v1.1

Microsoft Services Risk and Health Assessment Program for Windows Desktop (WDRAP) is a proactive, Premier Offering to assess the health, performance, and efficiency of Windows Vista and Windows XP-based desktop and portable computers. WDRAP performs over 500 in-depth tests against a group of your desktop and portable computers and your IT operational procedures. WDRAP collects required configuration data, analyzes it to identify settings that deviate from recommended best practices, and generates remediation recommendations. This enables the enterprise to make sure that computers are optimally configured and maintained in order to provide a dependable and well-performing platform for business applications.

 

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Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF)

The new MOF Management Reviews guide and the MOF Service Mapping guide are now available for download.

Download MOF Management Reviews: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=186460

Download MOF Service Mapping: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=186459

MOF Management Reviews will help organizations ensure that their technology services are on track to deliver expected business value. The management reviews in this document—Portfolio, Service Alignment, Project Plan Approved, Release Readiness, Operational Health, and Policy and Control—offer guidance to help management set goals, evaluate progress, and confirm results.

MOF Service Mapping—an extension of the Business/IT Alignment Service Management Function (SMF)—is intended to introduce the content, structure, development, usage, and benefits of service maps. Service maps are graphical representations of a technology service that illustrate the various components that rely on the successful delivery of that service.

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