1. Microsoft Assessment and Planning 3.0
Jumpstart Desktop Deployment and Application Virtualization Projects with
Microsoft Assessment and Planning 3.0
Baldwin Ng –
Sr. Product Manager | Virtualization | Servers | Clients
Solution Accelerators Team

2. Agenda What are Solution Accelerators? IT Migration Challenges
Introducing:
Microsoft Assessment and Planning
Demo
Architecture
Future Roadmap
How do I get it? (Next Steps)

3. What are Solution Accelerators?
Guidance
Automation Tools and Guidance
Accelerate the adoption of Microsoft technology in every organization
Partner Impact
Automated pre-sales assessment and planning tools
Tested best practices
Multi-product approach
Scripts and Code
Tools
Models
Microsoft Solution Accelerators are free resources in the form of automation tools and technical guidance designed to help you accelerate the sales of Microsoft products and increase recurring service revenue.
We take a multi-product approach to provide you with impactful automated pre-sales assessment and planning tools and tested best practices for every stage of your IT engagements with your customers.

4. Virtualization Solution Accelerators
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Virtualization Solution Accelerators
ASSESS
PLAN
SECURE
DEPLOY
OPERATE
Microsoft Assessment and
Planning (tool + guidance)
Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool (Coming Soon)
Infrastructure Planning and Design Series (guidance)
For example, Microsoft Solution Accelerators Team provides a suite of Virtualization Solution Accelerators to help you in all stages of your IT projects from the Assess and Plan phase, to Secure, Deploy, and subsequently Operate.
Introduction of Each Virtualization Solution Accelerators:
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator
Infrastructure Planning and Design Guides
Windows Server 2008 Security Guide
Microsoft Deployment
Offline Virtual Machine Servicing Tool
Microsoft Deployment
(tool + guidance)
Windows Server 2008
Security Guide (guidance)
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5. IT Migration & Partner Challenges
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IT Migration & Partner Challenges
Can my customer’s existing client machines run Windows Vista and 2007 Microsoft Office?
Can my customer’s existing servers migrate to Windows Server 2008?
What is the portion of physical servers that can be consolidated with Hyper-V? Managed by SCVMM?
What about application virtualization?
How can I make a profitable practice selling Microsoft software and delivering IT services?
So, what are the major IT migration challenges that Partners like you are facing?
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6. 7/1/ :43 PM
announcing
Microsoft Assessment and Planning 3.0 (formerly Windows Vista Hardware Assessment)
To tackle these challenges, the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team has released a new automated tool called Microsoft Assessment and Planning This tool, previously known as Windows Vista Hardware Assessment” has been hugely popular and now expanded to not only provide hardware assessment for Windows Vista, and Microsoft Office It now also assesses existing servers for hardware and device compatibility with Windows Server 2008 and offers server virtualization candidates reporting and desktop infrastructure assessment for Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid).
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

7. Microsoft Assessment and Planning
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Microsoft Assessment and Planning
Integrated Portal with Automated Tools and Guidance from desktops to servers
Agent-less inventory of clients, servers, applications, devices and roles
Technology migration and readiness assessment and proposal generation
Multi-Product Pre-Sales Assessment Tool (proposals included)
Hardware and Device Compatibility for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and 2007 Microsoft Office System
Server Virtualization candidates for consolidation with Hyper-V and Virtual Server R2
Infrastructure assessment for environment to leverage Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid)
MAP
Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V
Virtual Server 2005 R2
Windows Vista
2007 Microsoft Office
Microsoft
Application
Virtualiz-ation
Terminal Services
System Center VMM
Other Products
Let’s take a look at what Microsoft Assessment and Planning is about.
Microsoft Assessment and Planning is an integrated portal with a suite of automated tools and guidance to help your migration needs, from desktops to servers and now also include virtualization.
Its unique agent-less inventory technologies allow remote assessment of clients, servers, applications, devices and roles – all without deploying any software agents to the machines on your customer’s network.
The auto-generation of readiness assessments and proposals makes it easier for you to prepare for bids and produce customer-ready materials to help you win more sales engagements.
MAP is a multi-product pre-sales assessment tool that is designed to help Partners like you to speed up the pre-sales process by offering tangible and actionable upgrade recommendation in just an hour or so.
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8. MAP – How it works Customer Network
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MAP – How it works
Customer Network
MAP Tool User
(Microsoft Partner)
Server Consolidation?
Virtualization?
Windows migration?
Assess your customer’s environment and
recommend the right technologies
MAP
In order to have a successful IT project rollout, understanding the network environment is key. The MAP tool works as a remote inventory engine.
All you need to do is to install MAP on a single desktop or server, connect it to the IT network, and with the correct credentials, you will be able to leverage WMI protocols and others to find and assess computers on the network.
MAP can generate technology-specific assessments and recommendation reports in Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
Report Generation
For Different Migration
Scenarios
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9. MAP - Proposals 7/1/2018 12:43 PM www.microsoft.com/MAP
For example, if you are interested in migrating your existing servers to Windows Server 2008 but are unsure about which ones can be migrated (i.e. will meet the minimum if not the recommended hardware requirements “bar”), you can get the answers with MAP.
MAP generates a professional set of proposals in Microsoft Word so the Business Decision Makers can have a solid overview of the readiness of the IT infrastructure for the specific OS migration or virtualization effort.
However, getting the high-level assessment view is not enough.
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10. MAP – Detailed Assessments
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MAP – Detailed Assessments
PC-by-PC Level Detailed Reporting
Current OS Results
Hardware and Device Assessment Results
System Resources
Experience after Upgrades
Deployment Blockers
Device Compatibility
To satisfy the needs for drill-down information of each machine’s readiness and the upgrade recommendations. MAP also generates a set of Microsoft Excel workbooks with detailed information to help you plan for an OS migration or virtualization project.
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

11. Microsoft Assessment and Planning 3.0
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demo
Microsoft Assessment and Planning 3.0
Let’s do a quick demo to see how MAP works.
Baldwin Ng
Sr. Product Manager
Server and Tools
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

12. MAP - New User Interface
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MAP - New User Interface
Database
Driven
Multiple Technologies
As you can see, MAP has a very easy to use Graphical User Interface. It offers many different technology assessment functionalities and is perfect for you to use in different areas of your IT projects.
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13. MAP - Architecture Agent-Less Network-wide Scale Out Database Driven
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MAP - Architecture
Agent-Less
Network-wide
Scale Out
Database Driven
MAP consists of several different modules including the MAP Collection Engine, UI Engine, Reporting Engine, Doc-Gen and Assessment Engines.
It is a highly scalable agent-less network-wide inventory and assessment tool. In this release, we have added new functionalities including scale-out inventory where you can use a series of machines to conduct inventory in parallel using a single “Master” and many “Helper” machines.
On average, you can conduct an inventory and assessment of 10,000 machines in about 1-2 hours and it scales to much large enterprises also.
MAP uses SQL Express 2005 or SQL Server 2005 for database management.
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14. MAP - Benefits
Fast, Scalable and Agent-less Inventory – zero footprint
Actionable Assessments and Proposal Generation
Multi-Product Pre-Sales Assessment Tool
Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 and 2007 Microsoft Office System
Hyper-V and Virtual Server 2005 R2
Microsoft Application Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid)
System Center Virtual Machine Manager

15. Customer/User Feedback
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Customer/User Feedback
“[Results from the auto-generated readiness reports] saved us more than U.S.$20,000; we just need to upgrade the memory and hard drives for many of our clients. The cost of upgrades is much cheaper than replacing an entire computer.”
Kathy Lin, IT Manager of Sporton International, Inc., Microsoft Customer in Taiwan
“Because of the tool’s recommendations, CHS decided not to replace all of its computers as originally planned. By replacing only half of the computers, the company reduced hardware costs, originally budgeted at $76,000, by 50 percent.”
Sumeeth Evans, Collegiate Housing Services, Microsoft Customer in U.S.
Here are some of the quotes of corporate customers and Microsoft Partners who have used MAP to save hardware costs and speed up deployments.
“Unlike other tools in the market, this tool offers fast, secure and agent-less assessment for hardware and device compatibility in a matter of hours instead of days. …our recommended tool for our sales force to generate demand for Windows Vista deployments...”
David Feng, Systex Corporation, Gold Certified Partner in Taiwan
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16. Roadmap for MAP 3.1/4.0
Currently we are exploring the following features:
64-bit installation support
Hyper-V modeling support
Security assessments of desktops
SQL assessments for migration to SQL 2008

17. Join the MAP Partner Extended Team: Email Baldwin.Ng@microsoft.com
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Next Steps
Download MAP Tool
Read MAP Blog
Report Your Success Story using MAP
Send us Feedback via TechNet Forum
To learn more about MAP, please visit these links.
Join the MAP Partner Extended Team:
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18. More Resources Learn more about Virtualization:
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More Resources
Learn more about Virtualization:
TechNet Virtualization TechCenter
Microsoft Virtualization Site
Get Virtualization Accelerators:
Microsoft Assessment and Planning
Infrastructure Planning & Design Guides
Windows Server 2008 Security Guide
Microsoft Deployment
Offline Virtual Machines Servicing Tool coming soon
Visit Microsoft Partner Program site:
To learn more about Virtualization and other Solution Accelerators, please visit these links.
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries. The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

19. Microsoft Assessment and Planning http://www.microsoft.com/MAP
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Q&A
Let’s do a quick demo to see how MAP works.
Microsoft Assessment and Planning
© 2007 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Microsoft, Windows, Windows Vista and other product names are or may be registered trademarks and/or trademarks in the U.S. and/or other countries.
The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.

20. 7/1/2018 12:43 PM www.microsoft.com/MAP Thank you for coming!
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The information herein is for informational purposes only and represents the current view of Microsoft Corporation as of the date of this presentation. Because Microsoft must respond to changing market conditions, it should not be interpreted to be a commitment on the part of Microsoft, and Microsoft cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information provided after the date of this presentation. MICROSOFT MAKES NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, AS TO THE INFORMATION IN THIS PRESENTATION.
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