What's new in Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 9.0.135.0
Feb 11, 2014- 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.
New in Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 8.0.5427.0 (Dec 14, 2012)
- This new version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit provides agentless discovery, inventory and assessment for a variety of scenarios. Some of the key features in this release are:
- Windows Azure virtual machine readiness and sizing assessment.
- Office 2013 and 365 assessments to assist in upgrade planning.
- Lync Usage Tracking scenarios for determining CAL requirements expanded to include Enterprise and Plus licensing.
- Re-designed user interface simplifies the steps you need to follow to enable scenarios and surfaces focused and concise information.
New in Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 7.0.4640.0 (Jul 6, 2012)
- A migration assessment for virtual machines deployed on VMware vSphere platform to Microsoft Hyper-V platform
- The ability to gather performance metrics from Linux based operating systems for use in Server Consolidation scenarios
- Hardware and role migration assessments to support planning for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012
- Assess Standard Client Access License (CAL) needs for on-premise deployments of Lync 2010
- Desktop virtualization planning for Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI), Session Virtualization and Windows Thin PC
- New options to streamline SQL Server discovery
- The ability to report on Active Users and Devices discovered through Active Directory
New in Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.5.4226.0 (Dec 13, 2011)
- Server virtualization and consolidation feature enhancements including:
- The ability to customize Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track Configurations
- The ability to set utilization thresholds for virtualization hosts and infrastructure
- Enhanced UI controls that allows users to quickly find, filter, and select the list of machines targeted for virtualization
- Capacity planning for migrating SQL Servers to Microsoft Database Consolidation Appliance
- Additional in-depth migration analysis of applications to the Windows Azure Platform
- Windows Azure Migration proposal that provides guidance on migrating the specified application to Windows Azure based on the MAP Toolkit assessment and Azure survey questions
- Software Usage Tracking for Forefront Endpoint Protection 2010
- Discovery and reporting of "active devices" running the Windows Operating System
- Discovery and reporting of SQL Server 2012
- Discovery and reporting of Oracle Instances on HP-UX-based Itanium servers
- Enhancements to the MAP user experience that streamline tasks and improve overall usability