Indiana Windows User Group

Folks,

Sorry for the really late notice. As we announced at our last meeting, we are joining CWUG (Chicago Windows User’s Group) to do a first joint Midwest Windows User Group Live Meeting. The topic will be Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator and will be presented by Baldwin Ng, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. Below are details on how to join the meeting.

This is a live meeting so you can join this from anywhere. Please forward to your friends and/or colleagues as applicable.

TIME: 6PM - 7:30PM
DATE: Tuesday June 17th

Here is some more information on MAP(Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator)

Are your existing servers and desktops capable of running Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista? Do you wish to determine quickly if your existing servers are good candidates for server virtualization using Hyper-V? Look no further.

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is just the right tool to help you get answers that you need.

Formerly known as Windows Vista Hardware Assessment (WVHA), the MAP Toolkit 3.1 now expands into new areas including server virtualization using Hyper-V, SQL server discovery and desktop security assessments, while retaining the original WVHA and MAP Toolkit 3.0 features:

1) Hyper-V server virtualization assessment (NEW!)
2) Desktop security assessment (NEW!)
3) SQL server discovery and inventory (NEW!)
4) 64-bit installation support for the MAP inventory machine (NEW!)
5) Windows Server 2008 hardware/device compatibility assessment
6) Windows Vista hardware/device compatibility assessment
7) 2007 Microsoft Office hardware compatibility assessment
8) Virtual Server 2005 R2 virtualization assessment
9) Microsoft Application Virtualization client and server assessment
10) Server Roles and Non-Windows Machine Inventory

In addition, this tool can generate localized desktop readiness reports in N. American English, German, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Portuguese.


Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is based on the agent-less infrastructure scanning technology developed by the Microsoft Solution Accelerators Core Engineering Team.

MAP makes it easier for Microsoft customers and partners to conduct a network-wide inventory remotely and securely without installing any software agents on each machine being inventoried.


First, by connecting a computer with the MAP application to the network, the user with the correct local administrator credentials can inventory and assess the readiness of the servers, clients, devices and applications for various migration and virtualization scenarios. Since no agents are used, setup of this tool is very easy.

Upon successful inventory and/or performance gathering, MAP will generate the user-specified assessment reports and proposals in the form of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word documents.

The proposals are typically targeted for Business Decision Makers and Technical Decision Makers in an organization; while the detailed reports are tailored for IT implementers including desktop and infrastructure administrators and IT consultants.