I’ve had a lot to say about Windows 8 already this year, and I’ll doubtlessly have more as we edge closer to its official late-October release date. And, let’s face it: most of it hasn’t been good.

The Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 8.5 was released late last week. This version of the free toolkit, which can be downloaded here, will check whether an organization's computing ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

The Microsoft Solution Accelerators team recently released the beta version of the Microsoft Assessment and Planning toolkit (MAP) 4.0 on TechNet in both 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. Make sure to check ...

Q: A company's desktop support team needs the ability to analyze detailed recorded event tracing data on a specific set of newly installed desktop machines. The team has chosen to use the Windows ...

What first started as Windows Vista Hardware Assessment (WVHA), a tool for helping IT pros deploy Vista, has now grown into a inventory, assessment, and reporting tool for determining what is needed ...

As Microsoft continues its virtualization journey, one of the valuable tools that they provide virtualization consumers is the free Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit. And now, the ...

The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2013 Update 1 solution was released on Monday, with notable support for Windows 10 deployments. The toolkit can be downloaded from this page. Previously, it was just ...