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Release Date: July 12, 2010
This new version of the Microsoft® Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit provides agentless discovery, inventory and assessment for a variety of scenarios, including:
Hardware readiness and device compatibility assessments for Windows® 7, Windows Server® 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2,
Migration assessments for Microsoft Office 2010,
Security assessments and readiness for Network Access Protection (NAP) and Microsoft Forefront® client security,
Server consolidation and virtualization planning using Microsoft Hyper-V® technology,
Discovery of Microsoft SQL Server®, System Center Configuration Manager and computers running VMware server and Linux distributions.
Software usage information for Windows Server, Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL Server and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager.
Windows 2000 Migration Assessment Report.
Important: Installation and use of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit requires separately purchased licenses for the following software products:
This document provides the prerequisite information you need to install and start using the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit . You should also use this document to obtain information about any late-breaking updates and known issues in this release.
For more information about the MAP Toolkit, see the Getting Started Guide. To access the guide after you have installed the MAP Toolkit, click Start, click Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit, and then click Getting Started Guide. The guide addresses the following topics:
Install the Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit on a computer that meets the requirements specified in the following table.
| System | Requirement |
| Software |
Notes: |
| Hardware |
A computer with at least
the following minimum configuration:
Note Inventory, assessment, and reporting performance are based primarily on the speed of the CPU and the amount of available RAM. |
Installation Process and LoggingTo run the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit wizards, install the MAP Toolkit on a single computer that has access to the network on which you want to conduct an inventory and assessment. If you encounter a problem during installation, refer to the installation log files. The log files are located in the path specified in the %TEMP% environment variable on the local computer. You can find additional troubleshooting information by examining the application and system event logs. The log files are located in the "MAPSA Installer Logs timestamp" folder. |
Installing the MAP ToolkitReminder: Back up any existing MAP toolkit databases before starting the upgrade process. The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Setup Wizard guides you through the installation of application files and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express Edition. The MAP Toolkit requires a non-default instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition. If the computer is already running another instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition, the setup wizard must still install a new instance. This instance is customized for exclusive use by the MAP Toolkit wizards and should not be modified. By default access to this instance is blocked from remote computers. Access to the instance on the local computer is enabled only for users who have local administrator credentials. Note: Permissions are required to write to the folder selected as the installation target. If installation fails and error code 1603 displays, validate that you have permissions to the installation target and try again. Note:If you are running an antivirus product and experience installation issues, you may need to add the Windows Installer to your safe list of applications or temporarily disable the anti-virus product until the installation of the MAP Toolkit is completed. |
Uninstalling the ToolkitUse the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Setup wizard to uninstall the MAP Toolkit. The setup wizard will provide the options to remove the SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition instance and delete files created by the application. The SQL Server 2008 R2 common installation files will not be removed during uninstall, but they can be manually uninstalled by using the Add/Remove Programs item in the Control Panel. |
Repairing the MAP ToolkitImportant: When you repair the MAP Toolkit, any configurations saved in the Hardware Library will be deleted. |
Upgrading the MAP ToolkitWe do not recommend upgrading MAP databases from a pre-release version of MAP 5.0 to MAP 5.0 RTM. If you have a pre-release version, we recommend that you install MAP Toolkit 5.0 and inventory your environment again. Important: When you upgrade the MAP Toolkit, any configurations saved in the Hardware Library will be deleted |
Setup Wizard
If the setup wizard is run on a computer that is joined to a domain and the logged-on user is an account from that domain, you need to be connected to a network that can contact a domain controller on that domain before running the setup wizard. This is required so that the setup wizard can verify that the credentials of the user are valid before installation begins.
The setup wizard will detect if there is available disk space on drive C to download, extract, and install SQL Server 2008 R2 Express Edition. It is not able, at this time, to allow the user to select the drive in which to download and extract the SQL Server installation package. For this reason, if you have multiple partitions and the system partition does not have sufficient disk space, the setup wizard will prevent installation. To work around this issue, make sure you have up to 750 MB of disk space on the system drive.
In some limited scenarios, the setup wizard may fail and display an unclear error message. If this occurs, you should close all open applications and try to run the setup wizard again.
Before beginning an uninstall, repair, or upgrade, you should close the MAP Toolkit console and any open documents generated by the MAP Toolkit.
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Console
Not all scenario results supported by the MAP Toolkit are displayed in the console. The results of the scenarios not displayed in the console can be viewed by generating the related reports and proposals. On the File menu, click Prepare New Reports and Proposals.
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Wizards
If the MAP Toolkit is installed on a computer that is a member of a domain, log on to the computer using a domain user account. Use of a local computer account on a computer that is a member of a domain will result in authentication failures to remote computers, even if the correct domain credentials are provided to the Inventory and Assessment or Performance Metrics Wizards.
The MAP Toolkit collects the Number of Hyperthreads (per core), Number of Cores, and the L3 Cache Size for computers running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. The number of physical hyperthreading-enabled processors or the number of physical multicore processors is incorrectly reported in Windows Server 2003. For more information about how to address this issue, see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932370. For all other operating system versions, the corresponding cells in reports will be blank or display the value "Unknown."
The Performance Metrics Wizard can collect performance data only if the Remote Registry service is running on the remote computer. By default, the Remote Registry service is disabled on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Refer to the "Remote Registry Service" section of the Getting Started Guide for more information.
The MAP Toolkit wizards use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to collect the data that is required to complete the assessments. For more information about how to enable the WMI connection between the computer running the wizard and the computer being inventoried, see the "Windows Management Instrumentation" section of the Getting Started Guide .
Computers running Home editions of Windows cannot be inventoried and assessed because remote WMI connections to computers running these versions of Windows are not allowed.
For assessments of environments of more than 5,000 computers, we recommend that you use a dedicated computer running only the MAP Toolkit. Hardware and software recommendations can be found in the "Installation Prerequisites" section of this document.
At the time of this release, additional security features included in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista are known to impact performance of large scale inventories (that is 1,000 or more computers) conducted by the MAP toolkit.
Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit Reports
Server Consolidation Recommendations: Reported guest values are rounded and may not equal the sum of the host total values exactly.
Virtual Machine Inventory Report (VMReport): If the "Manually enter computer names and credentials" option is the only discovery method selected during inventory, the "Host and Guest Details" worksheet may not display both virtual machine hosts and virtual machine guests. This will occur if credentials for a host are specified but not the guest, or vice versa. To work around this issue, either manually specify credentials for both the host and all of its guest computers, or use another inventory method such as "Use Active Directory Domain Services."
Virtual Machine Inventory Report (VMReport): The MAP Toolkit may not report the physical host associated with a virtual machine in the VirtualMachineInventory report if that virtual machine is the last machine inventoried. Re-running the inventory process will typically cause the missing physical host to appear in this report.
All reports: MAP will report wrong processor information if a newer processor that uses extended family bits is running Windows XP SP3 or earlier or Windows Server 2003 SP2 or earlier. A hotfix is available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/953955. Note: This hotfix must applied to each computer that meets this criterion to get the correct results.
Hardware and Software Inventory Report
MAP uses HAL commands through SSH to inventory hardware information from computers running Linux operating systems. If the HAL package is not installed on the target computers or the inventory account lacks permission to use those commands, MAP will report blank values for some of the hardware properties in the reports.
On Linux machines, MAP can report hardware information about only certain type of optical drives. MAP will report blank values for unidentified optical drives in this case.
To inventory and report Apache, MySQL and PHP applications on Linux operating systems, the MAP Toolkit uses string patterns to identify package names and running processes. In cases where the defined patterns are not comprehensive enough to identify different distributions of these applications, the MAP Toolkit will not report them. This can also result in the reporting that these applications as installed when in actuality only supporting packages related to those applications are installed.
All Summary Report documents:
The pie chart images may lose fidelity when using Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2010. You may have to manually adjust the graphs in the proposal documents.
If running the MAP Toolkit on a computer running Windows XP (x64) or Windows Server 2003 (x86) and Office 2007 without Service Pack 2, text in the Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Summary Reports may concatenate. To resolve this issue, update to the latest service pack.
The report generation process might fail if either Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel is open while the reports are being generated. If an error occurs, you should close all instances of Microsoft Word and Excel and rerun the wizard.
Software Usage Tracker
While parsing log files and events to compute server usage, accesses from certain system accounts (NT Authority\anonymous logon, NT Authority\Local Service, NT Authority\Network Service, NT Authority\System) are filtered out by name based on their English spellings. However, the names of these system accounts are spelled differently on some non-English versions of the operating systems and the end-user can change the default account names for these system accounts manually (including on English versions of the operating system). In those cases these system accounts will not be filtered out and will be included in the counts of unique users accessing services in the Software Usage Tracker reports.
Currently the MAP Toolkit does not identify and count for enterprise usage of Exchange 2010 mailboxes using archiving and retention policies.
Other Issues
If the MAP Toolkit is running on a computer that has the Windows XP (32 bit) operating system, it will not be able to inventory servers running Linux. To resolve this issue, run the MAP Toolkit on a computer running Windows XP (64 bit) or Windows Vista or later.
Currently, there are some restrictions on parsing security log files (*.evtx) generated by servers running Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The MAP Toolkit can parse *.evtx files only when it is installed on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
For questions about how to use or install the MAP Toolkit, review this document and the Getting Started Guide.
Support for the MAP Toolkit is provided through Microsoft Product Support Services (PSS). Premier customers should contact Premier Support for assistance. Support offerings and regional contact information for support can be found at http://support.microsoft.com/common/international.aspx.
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