Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit

Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit is a software application that helps you find computers on a network and perform a detailed inventory with them so that you can generate reports and make upgrading recommendations.

The installation process does not pose any issues, other than the fact it may last quite a while. The interface you are met with is quite simple and intuitive, seeing it only consists of a navigation panel, a menu bar, and a pane in which to view the selected information.

It comes bundled with comprehensive Help documentation, so that both power and novice users can easily learn how to handle it, without encountering any kind of issues.

This program comes bundled with multiple types of scenarios, including “Cloud,” “Desktop,” “Server,” “Desktop Virtualization,” “Server Virtualization,” “Database” and “Usage Tracking.”

Regardless of the one you choose, Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit strives to gather information from all the computers detected in the LAN using various instruments, such as WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), the Remote Registry Service, Active Directory, PowerShell or the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

A wizard is provided so that you can easily select all the data you are interested in and process it, with assistance every step of the way. Databases can be created with just a click of the button while opening the location of all the saved reports in Windows Explorer is just as easy.

To conclude, Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit is an efficient piece of software which can help you better assess your software needs. It may at times hamper the computer’s performance, yet this is to be expected from this type of product. The response time is good, it supports import from XML files, and it did not pop up any errors, crash or freeze in our tests.