Monday, July 7, 2008

DPM - Virtual Tape

One of our participants on the DPM class is asking if we can test out the Tape functionality in DPM without installing a real Tape Library? Yes you can.

Thanks to FireSteamer.

You can download and use it for 30 days trial from:

http://cid-147d10eebd539097.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/Tools/VirtualTape

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator Installation Prerequisites

I just tried to install MAP on virtual machine. I found that there are few components you need to install before installing MAP on your system.

Below are the list of required components:
  • .Net Framework 2.0
  • Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2003 with SP2
  • SQL Express or SQL Server
The installation steps is pretty straight forward. Just you need to specified the database (there is a wizard provided by MAP to help you go through this process) if you run an assessment project.

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator Available NOW!

A Great news for SCCM & Virtualization Fans!

Since Windows Server 2008 & Windows Vista SP1 are hot topic right now, you might think of migrating your current environment to this new technology. But how well you know about your current environment if you do not have proper IT Assessment process in place?

With the release of Microsoft Assessment and Planning Solution Accelerator, you may now make use of this tool to gather and organizes system resources and device information from a single computer. Another good news, you do not need to worry about deploying the agent to every system on your network (because most of the assessment tool need a agent on remote system to gather device information), and it is AGENTLESS!!

If you are interested, just visit the sites below and gather the information needed:

  • Download MAP 3.1: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=111000
  • Read more about MAP: http://www.microsoft.com/MAP
  • View demos on Team Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/MAPBLOG/

  • If you guys got any comment on this tool, feel free to feedback to us!