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Chapter 1Does Your Hardware Measure Up?Your boss or customer will start the conversation with one question when you propose to upgrade the desktop inf

10 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?A new dialog box opens, allowing you to control the membership of the MAPGroup security group. This poli

using tHe Microsoft assessMent anD planning toolkit | 11Remote Registry Service This service is used by MAP to identify which roles are installe

12 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?Model For Local Accounts to use the Classic: Local Users Authenticate As Themselves setting, as shown in

using tHe Microsoft assessMent anD planning toolkit | 13It is possible that you will have computers to assess that are members of workgroups. The fire

14 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?in S t A l l i n g MAP o n t h e Se R v e RInstall the operating system and prerequisites for MAP on

using tHe Microsoft assessMent anD planning toolkit | 15The SQL Server Express screen (Figure 1.10) lets you configure how SQL Server Express will be

16 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?The Surveys wunderbar is strangely named. It provides you with links to more reference material. There i

using tHe Microsoft assessMent anD planning toolkit | 17You can expand each of the items in the navigation pane on the left to see the many ways you

18 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?Windows-Based Computers is selected by default. This is the option that you will use for a Windows 7 rea

using tHe Microsoft assessMent anD planning toolkit | 19Use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) System Center Configuration Manager (also k

2 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?Windows 7 Ultimate•uWindows 7 Enterprise•uWe won’t go into detail on the first three; the Starter editio

20 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?The Active Directory Credentials screen (Figure 1.17) asks you to enter the credentials that will be use

using tHe Microsoft assessMent anD planning toolkit | 21In this example, we are going to assess all computers in deploy.com  Deploy  Computers. Cho

22 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?The All Computers Credentials screen is updated to show the entered credentials, as shown in Figure 1.21

using tHe Microsoft assessMent anD planning toolkit | 23The Summary screen lists the configuration of the discovery. You can proceed with the dis-cove

24 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?Produce MAP Reports and ProposalsThe MAP database should now contain information about discovered comput

proDuce Map reports anD proposals | 25We should investigate why none of our machines have fallen into the Ready For Windows 7 category. We can do thi

26 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up? 5. Take some time to look around this spreadsheet report. It will be the basis of your future work in

proDuce Map reports anD proposals | 27Worksheet name DescriptionDeviceDetails Details on every discovered device are listed here, including actions t

28 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up? 7. Select the Use Custom Settings option and modify the selections and entered hardware sizes to mee

proDuce Map reports anD proposals | 29 9. When you have discovered and assessed as many machines as you can in the orga-nization and you have config

winDows 7 HarDware requireMents | 3Transferring a small file over that connection will take much longer than it would have with a local file server.Bra

30 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?You could perform a single discovery of all machines to create a single MAP database. You would then set

tHe BottoM line | 31Plan for and use the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit. MAP can be installed and used in a number of ways, depending

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4 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?hardware. Windows 7 has much higher hardware requirements than Windows XP. You will have to know the requ

winDows 7 HarDware requireMents | 5Table 1.1 shows the maximum amount of memory that is supported by each Windows 7 edition.Table 1.1: Maximum memor

6 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?You now know the requirements of Windows 7. The challenge is to use this information to identify what you

using tHe Microsoft assessMent anD planning toolkit | 7Windows Server 2008•uWindows Vista Ultimate, Enterprise, or Business Edition•uWindows Server

8 | CHAPTER 1 Does Your HarDware Measure up?without using a domain admin user—and without running around to every computer to set up a user with admi

using tHe Microsoft assessMent anD planning toolkit | 9Careful Approach to New Group Policy ObjectsYou should always limit the scope of a new policy