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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit

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Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit 6.0 Beta

Beta review program now open!

Join the MAP 6.0 Beta Program

We invite you to join the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Beta program! As a MAP Beta program member you have the opportunity to test drive the next version of MAP—version 6.0! MAP 6.0 Beta includes some exciting new features to help you accelerate the adoption Microsoft private and public cloud platforms. Give the tool a try and let us know what you think!

MAP 6.0 Beta: Accelerate the adoption of Microsoft private and public cloud platforms

Planning your journey to the cloud just got a bit easier. The next release of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit—version 6.0 Beta—includes assessment capabilities to evaluate workloads for both public and private cloud platforms. With MAP 6.0 Beta, you now have the ability to identify workloads and estimate the infrastructure size and resources needed for both Windows Azure and Hyper-V Fast Track. Also new to MAP 6.0 Beta is the Office 365 client assessment, enhanced VMware inventory, and Oracle schema discovery and reporting. Expanded assessment and discovery capabilities from MAP help you streamline planning for your next migration project. Plan what’s next with MAP.

New features and benefits from MAP 6.0 Beta release help you:

·         Analyze your portfolio of applications for a move to the Windows Azure Platform

·         Accelerate planning to private cloud with Hyper-V Cloud Fast Track onboarding

·         Identify migration opportunities with enhanced heterogeneous server environment inventory

·         Assess your client environment for Office 365 readiness

·         Determine readiness for migration to Windows Internet Explorer 9

·         Discover Oracle database schemas for migration to SQL Server

The MAP 6.0 Beta review program is now open.

MAP 6.0 Beta review will run through mid-July, 2011. Join the beta program, download the beta materials today, and tell us what you think!

MAP works with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Security Compliance Manager to help you plan, securely deploy, and manage new Microsoft technologies —easier, faster, and at less cost. Learn more.