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# Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Reviews
**Vendor:** Microsoft  
**Category:** [Other IT Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/other-it-management)  
**Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 15
## About Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)
The Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit (MAP) is an agentless, automated, multi-product planning and assessment tool for quicker and easier desktop, server and cloud migrations.




## Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Reviews
  ### 1. An ideal planning program

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Gabriel V. | Analista, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Microsoft Project is fantastic for planning and executing the projects of my team and my colleagues. It allows us to distribute tasks among us and identify which members are responsible for certain tasks, avoiding confusion during the execution of the project. The Gantt chart is quite useful for planning the project's completion date.

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

To become an expert and feel comfortable using this project management software to its full potential, you will need to invest a significant amount of time in training. Some of the features or tools are difficult to understand, and the manual does not go into depth on how to use them.

**Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP):**

It is an ideal platform for companies seeking administrative planning of excellence and high standard.

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Overall, I am still happy with the way this program manages and handles our collaborative project and it has been immensely valuable in tracking and completing our project on schedule. It has improved our project planning and execution efficiency.

  ### 2. it is a practical, predictive and easy-to-use tool

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Agustin G. | PRODUCT MANAGER, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

How easy it is to use, because it is very intuitive

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

It could be lighter and faster execution

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I have been able to better organize the information and ideas to develop them in an orderly and efficient way

  ### 3. Easily plan and execute a project

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Waseem H. | HSES Supervisor, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Microsoft Project is fantastic for planning and executing my team's and my colleague's projects. It allows us to distribute tasks among ourselves and identify which members are responsible for particular tasks, avoiding confusion during project execution. The Gantt chart is quite useful for planning the project's completion date.

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

To become an expert and comfortable with utilizing this project management software to its full potential, you will need to invest a significant amount of time in training. Some of the features or tools are difficult to comprehend, and the manual does not go into great depth about how to use them.

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Overall, I'm still happy with how this program manages and manages our collaborative project, and it's been immensely valuable for keeping track of and completing our project on schedule. It has improved our project planning and execution efficiency.

  ### 4. Great assessment tool

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Arnab T. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Its user interface is smooth and looks good. Its tools for managing multiple projects at once are great. The virtual machines provided are smooth,work fast and emulate real life example quite easily. It automatically inventories the device and gives report on it which makes the whole process quite fast. Usually, little to no human intercation is required.

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

It has a significant learning curve and one usually takes more than a month to master it completely.

**Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP):**

I would recommend this software.

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It is helping us assess our infrastructure.

  ### 5. Best tool for planning Migration to cloud

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Mahender S. | Solution Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Microsoft MAP toolkit provides easy inventory and assessment of current infra, so as to plan seamless migration to cloud

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Nothing as much, I would have more likely to include non MS workload

**Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP):**

This is a go to tool if you are an primarily Microsoft shop plan on migration to public of private cloud

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It eliminates manual assessment activities which would have taken months to complete, you can plan

  ### 6. Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit for quicker easier desktop

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Junaid P. | Business Development Executive, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 26, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

The MAP toolkit is handy and does a lot more than just discovering the SQL Server instance names. So far, we have only looked at discovering SQL Server on a system or a network. This is a quick way to find detailed information about your SQL Server environment.

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

it is more investment needed and more time also required to get expert and to utilize the tool, some of the functions are difficult

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

if I avoid some negatives still I`m happy with the MAP tool, these tools manage and my projects, and I can track my completing task and schedules; it gave good planning and efficiency of execution

  ### 7. MAP Review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Shelley L. | Human Resources Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

MAP is an excellent tool for desktop, server, and cloud migrations. It is quick, efficient, and easy to use.

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

There isn't anything that I dislike about MAP.

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Migrating to the cloud is easy. Having all our programs on the cloud allows everyone to work more efficiently. It helps us to collaborate effectively.

  ### 8. MS MAP Review

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Elie S. | Freelance Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 30, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

The detailed information gathering from the network. Clear and valuable recommendations for the migration.

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

oversized downloads packages and no easy to use solution for small companies

**Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP):**

This tool needs to be available in every organization with more than ten computers or planning to move to the cloud.

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

We are analyzing an inventory of infrastructure and checking outdated connected systems, planning for upgrades and cloud migrations.

  ### 9. It’s great but could improve more

**Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

As it's a milti product assessment and planning, it covers almost all the areas of planning. The one which I liked the most is  - software usage tracking and private/public cloud planning. Simple to install and easy to access.

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

It would have been great if it had support for MS server 2019

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Almost all the assessments and planning related,but majorly:
- Migration planning
- Cloud planning and
- Software usage tracking

  ### 10. My review on Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sarath K. | Senior Presales Network engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

It very good tool to plan the project and its used for inventory management of existing infrastructure.

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Nothing as such but it can be improved as a more user-friendly application.

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

It's a good tool to scan the existing inventory and organize it. We can also pull the required reports in a more convenient way.

  ### 11. Microsoft Assessment and Planning review

**Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Younes Z. | Guest Experience Manager (Openning), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Easy way to use it to etablishe an assessment or personal and professional planning for yourself and for a team

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Anything, everything works well on it ! Sometimes it takes a long time to login

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Etablish an assessment for my coworkers and planning for the week the month or even the day

  ### 12. MAP the mapper

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 14, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

The UI is really remarkable and makes it a pleasure to use

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Haven't explored it enough to opinionate

**Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP):**

Think about your expenses

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Team related issues and OMG term project plan

  ### 13. Discovering My love for Microsoft

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 02, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Microsoft is one of the most advanced and profient software and programming of our time and has only gotten better over the years...always creative and full of different aspects and brand new ideas

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Nothing  I love it it cant go wrong in my book ,I feel that every solution is made available, insightful and self explanatory.

**Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP):**

Take your time to really learn and feel Microsoft and it's programs

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Business ventures , group projects getting familuar with all the different ventures Microsoft it's teams, affiliates and programs have to offer

  ### 14. A MULTI-Product Planning and Assestment Toolkit

**Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** March 24, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

It quicker and easier  monitoring system in all product, tools and other item you to acess the stock status specially in manufacturing  and other industry

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

Ofcourse if your connection is not stable or poor connectivity

**Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP):**

It is comportable to use, quicker and easier tools so i recommend this product to all companies  who needed a better nonitoring and planning system.

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

The one you can solve is the time management you will not lost more time in updating data gathering also it make producrive in every day work or job.

  ### 15. Growth

**Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2021

**What do you like best about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

It helps us monitor and keep our inventory safe

**What do you dislike about Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP)?**

It needs a little bit of enhancement and should be able to access or link to other applications

**Recommendations to others considering Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP):**

To be able to be linked to other applications

**What problems is Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) solving and how is that benefiting you?**

So far I have none


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## Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Features
**Content**
- Static Content Caching
- Dynamic Content Routing
- Cache purging

**Assessment **
- IT Infrastructure
- Cost Benefit
- Applications

**Agentic AI - Content Delivery Network (CDN)**
- Proactive Assistance

**Security**
- SSL
- Custom SSL

**Management**
- Dashboard
- Reports
- Logs

**Integration**
- API
- CMS Integration

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