That would be why we configured it with 56 enabled rules with 264 disabled rules for reporting purposes.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of justin stradley Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 9:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal That makes perfect sense. Thanks Ed! Justin R. Stradley Email<mailto:[email protected]> | Lync<sip:[email protected]> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=22281599> ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Ed Aldrich <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 9:02 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal SWM doesn't scale terribly well due to demands placed on the CfgMgr database if there are a lot of active rules enabled... its generally used actively on a small handful of key/expensive apps that need extra monitoring due to license implications... for that small subset of the total it works well Ed Aldrich [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.1e.com<http://www.1e.com/> [Description: Description: cid:[email protected]] Ent Cli Mgmt (2003-2015) Sent from my Microsoft Surface From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of justin stradley Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 4:14 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal I'm not doubting anyone, but can someone explain what the downsides of software metering are? I was planning on using it to assist a customer in removing unused licensed applications. Thanks, Justin R. Stradley Email<mailto:[email protected]> | Lync<sip:[email protected]> | LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=22281599> ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Daniel Ratliff <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 2:49 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal No, this is last time used. If the software gets removed, it was still used on X date and time by X user and will still show in the view. Daniel Ratliff From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Augustine, Greg Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 3:38 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal Ok, if the software is removed does it remove it from this view? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ratliff Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 2:23 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal Yes, I think natively its part of asset intelligence. Daniel Ratliff From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Augustine, Greg Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 3:20 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: RE: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal Is this being pulled in with HW inventory? From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Ratliff Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 1:55 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal Personally I recommend v_gs_ccm_recentlyusedapps. Its simple, and not a pain in the butt to write a report on. Daniel Ratliff From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 2:47 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal He's gonna say metering sucks and there are plenty of ways to do this without metering. Not that there aren't valid reasons for metering but simply determining if something is used is not one of them. ________________________________ John Marcum MCITP, MCTS, MCSA Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ [H_Logo] From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Augustine, Greg Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 1:38 PM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: RE: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal Go for it, looking for input. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Aldrich Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 1:30 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal Oooohhhhh... Can I SAY it??? :) Ed Aldrich [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.1e.com<http://www.1e.com/> [Description: Description: cid:[email protected]] Ent Cli Mgmt (2003-2015) Sent from my Microsoft Surface From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Augustine, Greg Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 11:55 AM To: '[email protected]' <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [mssms] Software Metering and software removal I would like all of your thoughts on software metering and collections to automatically remove software. We have built collections like the below that give us the information but when we run the removal it does not seem to update the information. I am assuming that it is related to the software inventory update cycle. select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_SYSTEM INNER JOIN SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile ON SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.ResourceID = SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID INNER JOIN SMS_MeteredFiles ON SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.FileID = SMS_MeteredFiles.MeteredFileID INNER JOIN SMS_MeteredProductRule ON SMS_MeteredProductRule.RuleID = SMS_MeteredFiles.RuleID WHERE SMS_MeteredFiles.RuleID = 16777399 AND DateDiff(day, SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.ModifiedDate, GetDate()) > 60 AND SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID NOT IN (SELECT DISTINCT SMS_MonthlyUsageSummary.ResourceID FROM SMS_MonthlyUsageSummary INNER JOIN SMS_MeteredFiles ON SMS_MonthlyUsageSummary.FileID = SMS_MeteredFiles.MeteredFileID WHERE DateDiff(day, SMS_MonthlyUsageSummary.LastUsage, GetDate()) < 60 AND SMS_MeteredFiles.RuleID = 16777399) We have also look at the following query to see if it work out better, which it does run fast thru SQL. select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceType,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Name,SMS_R_SYSTEM.SMSUniqueIdentifier,SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceDomainORWorkgroup,SMS_R_SYSTEM.Client from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile on SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId inner join SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM on SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.FileName = "snagit32.exe" and SMS_G_System_SoftwareFile.FileVersion like "11.%" and SMS_R_System.ResourceId not in (select SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID from SMS_R_SYSTEM inner join SMS_MonthlyUsageSummary on SMS_R_SYSTEM.ResourceID = SMS_MonthlyUsageSummary.ResourceID INNER JOIN SMS_MeteredFiles ON SMS_MonthlyUsageSummary.FileID = SMS_MeteredFile.MeteredFileID WHERE DateDiff(day, SMS_MonthlyUsageSummary.LastUsage, GetDate()) < 90 AND SMS_MeteredFiles.RuleID = 16777399) and SMS_G_System_COMPUTER_SYSTEM.Name not in (select SMS_R_System.Name from SMS_R_System inner join SMS_G_System_LastSoftwareScan on SMS_G_System_LastSoftwareScan.ResourceId = SMS_R_System.ResourceId where Datediff(day, SMS_G_System_LastSoftwareScan.LastScanDate, GetDate()) > 3) What are you all using to do software removal base on software that is not used? 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