Microsoft CLARET Reports continued

What’s NOT in the CLARET Report is just as important as what is in it, because there are many reasons why perfectly genuine entitlement isn’t listed in the CLARET.
FPP (Box) Product
Are licenses that are purchased ‘off the shelf’ – although it can be purchased from corporate resellers, it can also be purchased from retail outlets such [...]

Microsoft CLARET Reports Part 1

I’ve recently been working intensively with Microsoft CLARET reports, so I thought I’d outline some of the lessons I’ve learned – often the hard way!
But please don’t consider this a definitive guide.
Microsoft CLARET reports are a tool that Microsoft has designed to display an organisation’s entitlement, including software assurance. The information in CLARET Reports is [...]

The Auditor’s perspective

My friend Martin at the ITAM Review scored quite a coup when he asked a former software auditor to sit for an interview.
It’s a really meaty article, with some great information from the point of view of the often mysterious third party in the ITAM triangle (by which I man the software manufacturer as opposed [...]