Their legal team will drop a hammer on you and win. When you accepted the EULA from Microsoft you agreed to do this if they ask. Cooperation is the best course of action, unless you are blatantly stealing from them they won’t hammer you they will just make you get into compliance. There are outside companies you can hire to help with this that are MS approved.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Rankin Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:49 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Microsoft SAM Just out of interest, what happens if you refuse to co-operate with them? On 6 November 2014 13:43, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: This is the very first step, to determine whether they think you are willfully or negligently pirating software. Very likely, someone has filed a complaint. (It very well could be an ex-employee or a competitor.) But Microsoft takes those complaints very seriously. From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Stefan Jafs Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:38 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] Microsoft SAM Just got an e-mail from Microsoft to do an Microsoft License Review: We are requesting your support to conduct a License Review at “Name of Our Company”, The primary goals of this engagement will be to establish a license position baseline by reconciling installed Microsoft Software with purchase records, and completing a high-level “Current State Assessment” of your SAM policies and practices, with recommendations on how to optimize SAM within your enterprise and present you with an official Effective License Position (ELP) document So is this an audit or what? __________________________________ Stefan Jafs -- James Rankin --------------------- RCL - Senior Technical Consultant (ACA, CCA, MCTS) | The Virtualization Practice Analyst - Desktop Virtualization http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk<http://appsensebigot.blogspot.co.uk/>
