David Lum <[email protected]> wrote on 01/06/2009 11:09:39 AM: > I?m trying to use SMS to get a handle on installed software and > licensing ? problem is, the report is MASSIVE, how can I pare > it down to software that actually requires purchase?
Through software asset management :) You need an asset repository to reconcile your purchases in your accounting system with what SMS sees as being installed. BMC/Remedy, IBM Tivoli and HP/Perigrine are the big daddy's in this space, although LANDesk Process Manager looks like a promising upstart (and cheaper!). It's allot of work to fully impliment true software asset management, but you can get some significant payout's and cost savings. http://www.iaitam.org/ is a great resource. That's the long term best case scenario :) If you are on software assurance with Microsoft, get with your MS Sales rep and get your free certificate for Asset Intelligence for SCCM 2007: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3411685&SiteID=17 "You can engage CSS and ask for the certificate or any MS contact for that matter. Just have them send mail to 'Get AI System Center Online Cert' and a copy of the cert will be sent to them and then to you. " It's an entitlement that you have under software assurance: http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3397518&SiteID=17 http://searchwindowsserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid68_gci1301339,00.html It won't fully answer your question, but it will make the reports from SCCM far more readable and useful! And if you are under software assurance, it's free (can't beat the price!). Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
