The document discusses the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit, an agentless tool designed to provide readiness assessments for Microsoft technologies, including inventory and migration capabilities. It offers features for security assessment, virtualization candidate identification, and centralized performance management, aiming to streamline IT planning and proposal generation. The tool is assessed for its security measures and minimal impact on network traffic during operation.

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• What is the MAP toolkit?
• MAP Demos
• Q&A

6. What is the MAP toolkit?
• Agentless inventory and assessment tool
• Provide readiness assessment for Microsoft Technology
• Generates customizable report
• It is free

7. IT Migration Challenge
• Where can I find the SQL 2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014 instances and
migrate to SQL 2016 or SQL Azure?
• Can my server can migrate to windows server 2016?
• Which server can be consolidate with Hyper-V?
• What about application virtualization?
• Can my PCs run windows 8, 10 and microsoft office?

8. MAP Automated Tool Abilities
• Quick Agentless Assesment of:
- Multiple product inventory
- Readiness
- Security
- Compatibility
- Power management
- Virtualization & consolidation candidates
- Server
- Application
• Enable:
- Planning
- Proposal generation
- Green IT
- Focus on the business
- Shorthened planning time
- Centralized perf, policy & resource management
- ROI Analysis
- Intelligent server placement

9. MAP - How it works
SQL Upgrade?
Virtualization?
Windows Server migrations?
Customer Network
Asses your environment without the use of agents
Report generation for different
migration scenarios
MAP tool user
(Customer/Partner)

10. MAP tool… what is it good for?
• Agentlesss Assessment of Microsoft Server, Clients, Applications,
Devices & roles
• Inheritance/Merging Company Assets
• Assess upgrade/migration potensial for software and hardware
• Security challenges/patch management
• Implement best practices across Organizations
• Consolidation targets and green IT
• Resuer MAP documents for internal presentations
• Applications summary & compatibility
• Server virtualization candidates
• Power management
• Applications virtualization assessment

11. MAP 9.6 Features
• SQL Server instance discovery
• Heterogeneous Server environment inventory for technology including
windows server, linux, unix and vmware
• Office 2016 readiness assessment
• Virtualization candidates assessment for Hyper-V server consolidation
• Inventory of VMware server hosts and guests
• User interface and proposal customization for partner
• Enhanced usability and improved inventory performance
• Desktop security assessment for anti-virus and anti-malware programs
installation
• Windows Azure VM Capacity assessment

12. Top 3 Questions
• Is this tool secure?
- MAP requires the user to enter local admin credentials for the client machines
and servers, non-admin user cannot gain access to the machines and will get no
results from the MAP tool
- MAP encrypts the data traffic from the MAP machine to the assessed server and
client machines
- MAP does not persist or store any credentials required for WMI to remotely
gather information on the server and client machines
• How much data traffic do we get?
- A typical network of desktops would typically see 300kB to 1MB per PC of data
traffic generated by MAP
• What’s the impact on each computer?
- Very minimal. The MAP tool only ping about 30 machines at any given instance.

13. DEMO

14. Database Assessment

15. Database Assessment

16. Q & A