Microsoft’s Assessment and Planning Toolkit

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7826

  • Software usage tracking tools make it easy for your IT staff to manage your organization’s software license management and compliance processes in terms of product coverage. This tool also makes it simple to track users and devices. Software Usage Tracker reports provide your organization with an accurate accounting of workstation, application, andserver usage.
  • Azure and cloud migration tools provide automated discovery and detailed inventory reports of web applications, application portfolios, and databases in regards of their readiness for the Windows Azure platform.The tool will catalog, inventory, and report on web application portfolios and SQL Server databases instances in your environment and estimate the needed capacity to run applications on the Windows Azure Platform.
  • Windows 8 readiness tools provide detailed reports that include hardware and operating system information about each desktop. This tool will identify which networked computers meet the minimum hardware requirements for Windows 8. IT will also identify all applications installed on the networked computers.
  • Server 2012 upgrade tools collect the detailed infrastructure information that is needed for planning the migration to Windows Server 2012. This tool will create a server inventory report, analyze the data to assess your IT environment’s readiness, identify currently installed Windows Server operating systems, and provide a detailed analysis of hardware.
  • Server virtualization planning tools will assess and recommend optimizations to your’ organization’s current virtualization configurations. If your organization does not yet have a virtualized environment this tool will assess the infrastructure for virtualization readiness. The tool will recommend a list of underutilized servers that can be virtualized using Hyper-V, provide a detailed inventory of the Windows and Linux servers on your organization’s network, and evaluate the potential efficiency gained by virtualizing them onto a fewer physical servers using Hyper-V.
  • Desktop Virtualization tools create a set of desktop workload models based upon performance data gathered from your IT environment and perform host capacity sizing for both Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and session-based virtualization. The tool will also assess desktop machines and devices for their capability to run Windows Thin PC, and target candidate user populations for desktop virtualization.
  • SQL Server tools provide a complete networkwide inventory of MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and Sybase installations, version identification, and a hardware assessment to help your IT teamprepare for migrating legacy databases to SQL Server 2012.The comprehensive range of details that this tool reports will give your staff the information they need to consolidate databases and better utilize hardware and database resources.
  • Office 2010 tools identify the readiness of your IT environment for Office 2010. The tool will analyzehardware and operating systems, make recommendations for software and hardware upgrades, and a review of existing Office software applications in your current environment for application compatibility.
  • Office 365 Migration tools evaluate the compatibility of Office suites deployed in your environment with Office 365, via a hardware and software readiness assessment. The tools help to determine which computers in your IT environment are ready to use Office 365 and whether the Office suites currently currently being used are compatible with Office 365.

 

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  1. Mohamed Naflan

    thanx sir