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Identifying Overlapping Subscriptions and License Waste

Name: Identifying Overlapping Subscriptions and License Waste
Uploaded: 2025-10-20T13:01:30+00:00
Duration: 1 min 6 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: In this presentation, the speaker emphasizes the critical need for clear license visibility to optimize Microsoft licensing costs. He explains that…

20 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this presentation, the speaker emphasizes the critical need for clear license visibility to optimize Microsoft licensing costs. He explains that organizations must thoroughly understand their product usage and how Microsoft bundles its offerings to determine whether they truly need the licenses they purchase. The discussion covers evaluating the necessity of E5, Microsoft 365, or only Office 365 licenses, as well as managing contractor licenses. A recent client assessment is highlighted, revealing a substantial mix of E5 and F5 licenses that had never been examined for proper assignment across job codes or groups, underscoring the importance of systematic license assignment reviews to eliminate waste.

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You're going to need to have clear license visibility. I'm going to talk about and show that here, you know, here in a couple of minutes but what I really mean by that is you're really going to have to understand your usage of the products and how Microsoft is doing their bundling to determine do I really need the licenses that I have been buying. Right. So in other words there's going to be a lot of exercises of looking at do I need E5 do I need Microsoft 365 or only Office 365 do I need to look at my contractors and how we're doing, how we're how we're managing contractor licenses. We just finished an assessment with one of our clients. We're looking at their various different user types. They currently have a substantial mix of E5s and F5s and they never actually went through or never actually went through and looked at how their assignments are actually working on different job codes or within different groups and.