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Office 2010 Assessment & Planning

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Today, over on the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit Team Blog we announced the availability of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 Beta.

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an assessment and planning tool targeted at IT Professionals to help them begin the deployment process. The tool inventories your current environment and assesses the readiness of those computers for migration to the new technology, in this case Office 2010. MAP is an agentless tool, this means it can discover the computers in your network without installing any components on the target computers. MAP uses technologies already available in your IT environment to perform inventory and assessments. These technologies include Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Registry Service, Active Directory Domain Services, and the Computer Browser service.

MAP was originally created in 2006 to assess hardware readiness for desktop migration via an agentless inventory architecture. Over the course of the next three years MAP has been extended to assist Microsoft customers and partners to more rapidly and accurately plan for the deployment of the latest Microsoft platform technologies including Office 2010, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Hyper-V, SQL Server 2008, and more.

MAP is a Microsoft Solution Accelerator that serves as the starting point to help an IT Professional begin planning for Office 2010 deployments and outlines the next steps for your deployment. If you are just getting started with MAP review all of the capabilities of MAP on the MAP website.

We are particularly excited about this announcement as this release offers a complete assessment for Office 2010 readiness. Use MAP to perform an inventory and assessment of your IT environment and create two forms of output. The first is targeted at technical decision makers; this is a summary proposal which outlines the readiness of your environment for Office 2010 and outlines the next steps to drive the deployment. The second output is targeted at the IT professional; this is an Excel workbook detailing the readiness and inventory of the Office applications in the environment. Check out the sample MAP Office 2010 outputs:

The actionable recommendations and assessments presented in these outputs shorten the time it takes to plan your Office 2010 migration.

You can get the MAP 5.0 Beta from the MAP Connect site (Live ID required). Download the MAP beta and get started planning your Office 2010 deployment today. We look forward to your feedback on the assessment process and tools.

-Brian Shiers, Sr. Product Manager, Microsoft Office

Comments

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I am looking forward to starting the use of Office 2010 in my business.  I plan on refering my IT dept to this article.  We recently completed a physical office reorganization with the help of the folks at Dancker, Sellew, & Douglas at www.dancker.com.  They did a tremendous job and we have greatly increased our productivity and I have a feeling that Office 2010 will have a big impact as well.   <a href="www.dancker.com/.../space-planning">Office Planning</a>

  • Anonymous
    January 01, 2003
    I can't wait till 2010 comes to my office.  My IT guys will be installing it soon.  I have a feeling that Office 2010 will make my employees more productive, just like the physical office reorganization we recently completed with the help of the folks at Dancker, Sellew, & Douglas: <a href="www.dancker.com/.../space-planning">Office Planning</a>.  The job that they did has had a tremendous impact on the productivity and efficiency of my employees.  The designers at DS&D aren’t just shrinking the office— they’re rethinking it.

  • Anonymous
    March 22, 2010
    need to get level 4&5

  • Anonymous
    March 23, 2010
    Request Need office 2010's document more compatible with office mac when exchange document.

  • most right document format style (when use with Thai language or other languages than English, the arrangements aren't match when cross platform).
  • if this possible i think it's most affect to popularity of microsoft office for mac more than another document prosessing applications. Thank you for reading.
  • Anonymous
    December 28, 2013
    The last couple of weeks have brought the release of tools (4 tools in 2 weeks!) to help IT Professionals