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Announcing the MAP Toolkit 9.0!

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We are pleased to announce the availability of version 9.0 of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit. This release of the MAP Toolkit helps increase the agility and cost effectiveness of deploying the latest Microsoft technologies. It also enhances usage tracking to include accounting for Remote Desktop Services as well as Server and Cloud Enrollment licensed deployments. MAP 9.0 additionally helps organizations assess their environment for Office 2013 and Office 365, track usage of Windows Server 2012, Lync Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2013, Exchange Server 2013, System Center Configuration Manager 2012, and SQL Server 2012.  The Windows Azure assessment report has also been updated to include the latest Azure sizing.

New Server and Cloud Enrollment scenario helps to simplify adoption

Server and Cloud Enrollment (SCE) is a new offering under the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement that enables subscribers to standardize broadly on one or more Microsoft Server and Cloud technologies.  The MAP Toolkit 9.0 features an assessment scenario to identify and inventory SCE supported products within an enterprise and help streamline enrollment.

New Remote Desktop Services Licensing Usage Tracking scenario creates a single view for enterprise wide licensing

With an increase in enterprises deploying Remote Desktop Services (RDS) across wider channels, RDS license management has become a focus point for organizations.  With the new RDS Licensing scenario, the MAP Toolkit rolls up license information enterprise-wide into a single report, providing a simple alternative for assessing your RDS licensing position.

Support for software inventory via Software ID tags now available

As part of the Microsoft effort to support ISO 19770-2, the MAP Toolkit now supports inventory of Microsoft products by Software ID (SWID) tag.  SWID enhanced reports will provide greater accuracy and assist large, complex environments to better manage their software compliance efforts by simplifying the software identification process and lowering the cost of managing software assets.

Improved Usage Tracking data collection for SQL Server Usage Tracking scenario

As part of our ongoing improvement initiatives, Usage Tracking for SQL Server 2012 has been enhanced to use User Access Logging (UAL).  UAL is a standard protocol in Windows Server 2012 that collects User Access information in near real time and stores the information in a local database, eliminating the need for log parsing to perform Usage Tracking assessments.  UAL vastly improves the speed and helps to eliminate long lead times for environment preparation associated with running Usage Tracking assessments.

Download the MAP Toolkit 9.0 now!

You asked, We listened

As part of the MAP team’s ongoing improvement initiatives, we’ve reviewed a number of feedback submissions and have implemented changes based on the MAP community’s suggestions.  We’d love to hear more. Please send comments and suggestions to mapfdbk@microsoft.com.

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  • Anonymous
    December 17, 2013
    Pingback from How Do I Plan And Size A Hyper-V Deployment – MAP 9.0
  • Anonymous
    December 18, 2013
    Indeed, you've listened! Having option to add computers through IP list (text file) is simple yet great addition, thank you! I'm sure I'll discover other new & welcome additions as I go through the other features in next several days... I was just wondering - how come there isn't a way to load a config file for "Collect inventory data". For large users with mixed environments it can take a lot of time to setup a new Data collection, and there is no way to save the the "config" to re-use later. Well, either that or I haven't figured out a way to do it yet...
  • Anonymous
    December 18, 2013
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    December 26, 2013
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  • Anonymous
    January 06, 2014
    Good afternoon and Happy New Year. Due to the Christmas festivities, I have a consolidated month of
  • Anonymous
    February 11, 2014
    Microsoft a sorti la dernière version de son outil qu’est MAP. Ce logiciel est gratuit et vous permet