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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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Ref : Infrastructure Assessment Plane

This Article Help customers to collect and

log machines and servers' compliance reports
with Windows 2008 platform.

This Assessment can be done by ACT's

Team, also we can support customers in
achieving the task .customer can refer to
our remote control solutions for assisting
via internet.

Remote
Please ask for
Managem...
Remote Management Option V1.2.pdf
If you Didn't receive it as an attachment

For more info email Eng. Ahmos Gad agad@act-eg.com

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Solution Accelerator

Brief Description

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator is a tool that makes it easy for
you to assess your current IT infrastructure for a variety of technology migration projects. It
includes the features previously provided with the Windows Vista Hardware Assessment
Solution Accelerator.
On This Page

Please use the following link to download MAP

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=
67240b76-3148-4e49-943d-4d9ea7f77730&DisplayLang=en#filelist

If you received this article on CD search for the file

Microsoft_Assessment_and_Planning_Solution_Setup.exe

WITH MAP WE CAN DO

Overview
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator is an agentless toolkit that will
find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory of the computers using
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), the Remote Registry Service, or the Simple
Network Management Protocol (SNMP). Using this data, MAP will assess and report whether
computers can run Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Application
Virtualization (formerly SoftGrid). Assessments for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista

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 also include device driver availability and recommendations for hardware upgrades that may
be required.

MAP includes features for gathering performance metrics from computers you are
considering for consolidation using Hyper-V in addition to Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2.
Using the performance metrics and a model virtual server host computer, you can generate
reports that recommend placement of the physical servers in a virtual server
environment.Other new reports include a Security Center Assessment for client computers,
a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 inventory report as well as an enhanced virtual machine
inventory report to help you assess your virtualization efforts to date.

MAP incorporates the assessment features provided by the Windows Vista Hardware
Assessment Solution Accelerator, including localization of the Windows Vista assessment
reports in French, German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese.

System Requirements
• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003; Windows Server 2008; Windows Vista;
Windows Vista Service Pack 1; Windows XP Professional Edition
• Hardware Requirements:
○ 1.6-GHz or faster processor minimum (dual-core for Windows Vista)
○ 1.5 GB of RAM minimum (2.0GB for Windows Vista)
○ 1 GB of available hard-disk space required
○ 10/100 Mbps network adapter required
• Software Requirements: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition for storing inventory
and assessment data. Microsoft Word 2003 SP2 or Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Excel 2003
SP2 or Microsoft Excel 2007 for generating reports.
• CPU Architecture: The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator can be installed
on 32-Bit and 64-bit versions of any of the supported operating systems.

If you did receive this article on SharePoint

or OneNote format you can use object and
save it to be used later
This by Double click on object or Right click Microsoft_A
and save as ssessment...

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 ACT recommend to Install MAP on a windows XP with service pack 3
installed , during installation setup for SQL2005 Express will take place and
will be downloaded automatically from the net

Accept the Installation Default

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Download SQL server may take
some time (15-25 mins) according
to your Internet BW

ACT recommend to install SQL via

setup in order not to make any
version conflicts

Select (NEW) your database and give it

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proper name

Select what to Collect from machines

ACT recommend to collect all info.
E-mail: agad@act-eg.com
for more information related to this step

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According your Topology and Infra choose the way you
will collect your servers and machines data

Choose IP ranges to scan to save

unnecessary traffic on network

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 Credentials is so critical on discovering
Your organization machinery .
ACT recommend Domain Based Credentials
And if you got more than credentials save all

If any Wrong information Detected the Wizard will prompt you that it can
not connect to the given domain with given credentials

WE Don't recommended to use this software in an environment with no

domain but any way it will work

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A Scanning Progress will appear and start to detect machines within range
and domain

According to your right credential and network

Settings result may be vary

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A varity of reports will be created

Some of them Excel based

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No empty room to discuss all of this Report result but they will help us in our
assessment

Finally we have more reports in Word format that assist a lot in our task.

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We are waiting for this reports which will help us in planning and
designing ,your environment based on 2008 platform.

Don't hesitate to call us ,welling to support you , as we mentioned we can

make all the job for you and also can assist you in achieving via remote
management or even via cellular phones.

For more information or clarification contact ACT PS Department

Ahmos Gad
Senior Systems Consultant Engineer
Professional Services Department

Advanced Computer Technology (ACT)

8 El Batal Medhat Abdel Hamid off Shehab St.,
12411, Mohandessein, Giza, Egypt
http://www.act-eg.com

Phone: (+202) 33010- 100

Direct: (+202) 33010- 224
Mobile:(+2010) 1481- 292
Fax: (+202) 33058- 229
Email: agad@act-eg.com

Office hours: 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM,

Working days: Sunday to Thursday.

ACT is committed to provide you with the highest standards of products & services in the industry.

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