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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a free and useful tool. It is an inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can help to assess the IT infrastructure of your desire and determine the right technologies that your IT needs. Administrators can use this to determine whether or not the particular windows infrastructure, user’s device, and software application are adequately prepared to migrate to a new operating system, cloud environment, or server version. A professional can run this MAP toolkit on any Microsoft computing device and make a complete list of the entire windows network. MicrosoftAssessment and Planning Toolkit is made up of four main elements which are: l   MAPSetup.exe- this contains MAP and files that an IT administrator might need to set up a local SQL Server Database Engine. l   readme_.html file- this contains the details of what the administrator needs to run MAP Toolkit and problems related to it. l   MAP_Sample_Documents.zip- this contain

Definition wise difference between SPLA and Traditional VL- Definition of SPLA- “ SPLA is a Service Provider License agreement that allows an organization to license Microsoft products and use them to provide software services to the customer.” In this, all the services that are required by customers must be licensed including backend SQL database. Definition of Volume Licensing - “Volume Licensing is a service offered by Microsoft , is for organizations that require multiple licenses, but not the software media, packaging and documentation supplied with the full packaged product (FPP).” SPLA vs Traditional VL l   First and foremost SPLA is used to provide services to other customers and other external users but Volume licensing is only used for internal use. l   SPLA can be installed in a data center managed by the service provider and can be accessed remotely but VL can only be installed on-premise or on dedicated machines with an outsourcer. l   In SPLA service provider is the one

SPLA is a program that provides hosting offers. These offers are for service providers and are used to rent or lease Microsoft products every month. Service providers use SPLA to provide applications to their end customers. The reporting of the SPLA must be done by you every month on or before the fixed date set by your distributor because it is your obligation but the thing is, you need to know what y ou have in order to manage it and do the reporting. Octopus makes this task easier for you in a few simple steps: l    It collects data from your entire infrastructure. l    It calculate s the cost of each product used with accura cy. l    Then it generates an SPLA report monthly. l    It also looks for any improvements and any chance of reduction in cost and applies that. Octopus provides its customer with great insight into their IT infrastructure and server them three solutions regarding SPLA licensing and cloud migration which are : l    SPLA licensing optimization