Be prepared for a hair pulling experience. When we did the "It's not an audit, we're here to help you manage your licenses" they ended up doing lots of aggravating things. Stuff like not wanting to accept the idea that OEM XP licenses on a bunch of old HP machines were valid since neither our accounting or the reseller's records went back far enough to be able to produce an invoice. I think they finally dropped that when we came up with an email acknowledgement from the purchase and took pictures of a number of the COA stickers on some of the boxes. Then there was them saying we needed to purchase something like 20 cores of SQL Server 2012. We were running 2008r2, properly licensed and even with the 2012 transition, we were still properly licensed. I ended up quoting them the relevant sections from the SQL 2012 licensing document about a dozen times before they got it. There was several other dumb things.
I've heard that this is being driven from the sales side of Microsoft as a revenue enhancement tool. I didn't see anything that would make me think that's not the case. ----- Original Message ----- > Hi all > One of my new clients called me and said they received a letter via Fedex > from MS, regarding licensing. In my 15+ years I have never had that occur > before , I asked them to email me the letter so I can take a look at it. > They only recently (within the last year) gone to Volume Licensing for > Windows/Exchange/outlook and TS cals/licensing, all desktops are desktops > are OEM licensed. > They are also a small company (maybe 40 desktops ) and a handful of servers. > Has anyone on here ever been contacted in this manner? > Jean-Paul Natola -- Thanks, Joe Matuscak | Director of Technology Rohrer Corporation | Office: 330-335-1541 717 Seville Road | Wadsworth, Ohio 44281 www.rohrer.com | A Better Package
