Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit
An agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool.
Overview
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is an agentless, automated tool designed to help organizations accelerate their IT infrastructure planning process. It provides detailed readiness assessment reports, extensive hardware and software information, and actionable recommendations for migrations to Windows, Windows Server, Microsoft 365, and Azure.
✨ Key Features
- Agentless inventory and discovery
- Hardware and software compatibility assessment
- Migration readiness reporting
- Server virtualization planning (Hyper-V)
- SQL Server discovery and assessment
- Cloud migration assessment for Azure
🎯 Key Differentiators
- Completely free from Microsoft
- Agentless architecture
- Specifically tailored for migration to Microsoft platforms
Unique Value: Provides a no-cost, secure way to assess an on-premise IT environment for readiness to migrate to Microsoft cloud and server products.
🎯 Use Cases (5)
✅ Best For
- Discovering servers and collecting performance data for Azure migration readiness
- Generating detailed readiness assessment reports with hardware and software information
- Automating inventory of Microsoft Platform products like SQL Server
💡 Check With Vendor
Verify these considerations match your specific requirements:
- Real-time, continuous infrastructure monitoring
- Monitoring non-Microsoft environments extensively
- Organizations that have already fully migrated to Azure (Azure Migrate is recommended instead)
🏆 Alternatives
While Azure Migrate is the newer, recommended tool for cloud migrations, MAP is a great agentless gateway tool for initial on-premise assessments without sending data to the cloud.
💻 Platforms
✅ Offline Mode Available
🔌 Integrations
💰 Pricing
Free tier: The tool is completely free to download and use.
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