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Unlocking Success: Navigating the Maze of Software Licensing

Name: Unlocking Success: Navigating the Maze of Software Licensing
Uploaded: 2024-02-27T05:00:26+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin (presenter) demonstrates using a software-usage dashboard to analyze which Microsoft products users have and actually use across license…

27 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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Mike Austin (presenter) demonstrates using a software-usage dashboard to analyze which Microsoft products users have and actually use across license tiers (E1, E3, E5). He shows the ability to inspect per-user/product usage (Power BI, Phone System, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Office) and reports a client finding: many users were logging into the network but not using email, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, or Office — indicating pockets of under‑utilized or unnecessary paid licenses.

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So I can go in and actually see what these, these people are using, right? So I can go in and I can. I can find what they're using, right? So I can go in and I can look and see, like, are they using all the products that are in the E3? Are they only using the products that are in the E1? Right. So this is just a simple screen. If we look at the E5, so if they had the E5 across the board, we could see they're only using Power Bi and a little bit of phone system, but they're paying for E5 for everything. I can look and see, you know, what they're doing around the E3. I can look and see what they're doing around the E1. And then I can also dive deeper. I'm not going to pull that up because it's not what this is about today. But I can also go in and look deeper and see, are they using shared devices, Are they just sending emails? Are they not doing anything? Right? So when I go back to this client that I was talking about over here, what we found was they had large pocket pockets of users that were logging into the network but not sending emails, not using teams, not using SharePoint, not using OneDrive, not using Office.