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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) v5 toolkit now available
The Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team is happy to announce that the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 5.0 is now available! This is one of the most useful and popular of Microsoft’s planning toolkits allowing customers and partners to automatically assess your current infrastructure and make recommendations for future capacity and compliance. The new version 5 release has several new features, including:
- Heterogeneous server environment inventory
- Software usage tracking for Windows Server, SharePoint Server, System Center Configuration Manager, Exchange Server and SQL Server
- Microsoft Office 2010 readiness assessment
- SQL Server discovery and assessment for consolidation
- Windows 2000 Server migration assessment
This is a powerful tool for assessing your current IT situation and planning for the future — and it’s free! Make sure to check it out.
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