SQL Server 2012 Best Practices Analyzer

Copied from an internal email from a PM on the team, Jakub -

I’m pleased to announce that SQL Server 2012 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) has been released and is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29302.

Customer Value

The Microsoft SQL Server 2012 BPA is a diagnostic tool that
performs the following functions:

• 
  Gathers information about a Server and a
  Microsoft SQL Server 2012 instance installed on that Server.
• 
  Determines if the configurations are set
  according to the recommended best practices.
• 
  Reports on all configurations, indicating
  settings that differ from recommendations.
• 
  Indicates potential problems in the installed
  instance of SQL Server.
• 
  Recommends solutions to potential problems.