Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit 9.1 has been released which is a great to tool to discover what the environment contains before you start doing anything. I use this on a regular basis BEFORE making any kind of decisions.
Download and install on a computer from: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?&id=7826
Read more: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mapblog/archive/2014/06/27/announcing-the-map-toolkit-9-1.aspx
The short story is:
Discover Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Can target a Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V when doing server consolidation, improved SQL Server discovery.
Install.
Starting for the first time.
Create a Database.
Select what to inventory.
Watch paint dry.
And so we wait a while, and then some, and wait…
The environment.
Usage tracking.
Server Virtualization (Consolidation and Private Cloud).
Desktop overview.
The Excel reports are nice.
A tip, before running the assessment for desktops, adjust the assessment value according to this to make sense, not that I don’t use 4096 or 2048 to represent 4gb and 2gb since we need to compensate for GPU ram…
Desktop Report.
Hardware Inventory.
/mike
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The Deployment Bunny 
Hi,
Thank you for a great post… Does this tool give a CAL report for software that installed in enviroment like Lync, Sharepoint, Remote desktop ?
Thanks in advance..
Regards,
Basem
Yes, it does. That needs to be configured however, but it is possible