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How to Cut Office 365 Costs | Episode 3 | Welding your data

Name: How to Cut Office 365 Costs | Episode 3 | Welding your data
Uploaded: 2023-07-25T11:00:39+00:00
Duration: 55 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: The video explains how to cut Microsoft 365 costs by analysing license consumption data. The speaker gives a concrete example: a client owns 3,950 M365…

25 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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The video explains how to cut Microsoft 365 costs by analysing license consumption data. The speaker gives a concrete example: a client owns 3,950 M365 E3 licenses, has 3,940 assigned, but only 3,350 actually used — a 600-license shortfall hidden by Microsoft's consumption reporting (which treats assigned vs owned and rounds deployment percentages). The speaker notes that investigating blocked/non-human accounts and the 42 constituent plans within M365 can reveal reclaimable licenses.

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And so if I was to look at the M365E3 in this client, I could tell that they own 3950. They've assigned 3940, but they're only using 3350, so they're using 600 less than they need. Now the key thing here is Microsoft looks at consumption as I own 3950 and I've assigned 3940. So Microsoft will basically say ticky box, they're 99.75%, round that up to 100% deployed. Right. But the reality is only using 3350. And so if we go back and look at that data and look at their blocked users and, you know, non human accounts and all that sort of stuff, that's where those 600 are going to come in. Right. So we can actually go in and look at where are those, let's free up those 600. But the other thing is if you look at the M365, it's made up of 30 or sorry, 42 different plans.