Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit: Getting Started
The MAP Toolkit is used for multi-product assessment and planning. It assesses a network environment using agentless data collection technologies to gather inventory and performance information. Then provides assessment reports to aid organizations with their IT infrastructure planning.
The main areas of planning covered by MAP:
- Migration Planning
- Consolidation/Virtualization
- Private/Public Cloud Planning
- Software Usage Tracking
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is part of the Microsoft Solution Accelerators that provide tested guidance and automated tools to help plan, deploy, and manage new Microsoft technologies. They are all freely available and fully-supported by Microsoft.
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MAP Toolkit Getting Started Guide
- What is the MAP Toolkit?
- Why choose the MAP Toolkit?
- How to use the MAP Toolkit.
- Where to get Information, Help, and Assistance for MAP
Phase 1: Choose Goals
Phase 2: Gather requirements
Gather your Data collection requirements
Phase 3: Prepare Environment
Preparing your MAP Environment
Phase 4: Install toolkit
Install the MAP Toolkit
- Minimum Requirements for Running Map
- Where to Get the MAP Toolkit
- How to Install the MAP Toolkit
- Uninstalling the MAP Toolkit
Phase 5: Collect data
Phase 6: Review reports
Known issues / Troubleshooting
MAP Wiki Articles
There is a large collection of MAP toolkit pages and documentation on TechNet Wiki, because of the volume, they have been collected on a separated page. You can find it over here: MAP Toolkit: Wiki pages Index
MAP How-To Topics
- MAP to tell difference of a SQL in production vs evaluation
- Increasing the SQL database timeout value
- MAP: How to Interpret the Inventory Collection Status Screen
- MAP: How to use log files in the MAP Toolkit
- MAP: How to Enter Multiple Log File Paths for Log Parsing
- MAP: How to inventory your VMware environment
- Navigating the MAP Toolkit