Entitlements - Manual and Automatic

[KenMoore]

To get software counters to move counts from "not entitled" over to "entitled in use", we have to manually add a machine CI as a "Asset License Entitlement". This seems odd that you would need to do this manually for all CIs.

Seems there should be a hook to make this happen automatically. What are we missing?

Thanks in advance.

[maryvanatta]

Microsoft Volume Licensing for Office Pro Plus. I know I can add a contract for Enterprise licensing. Do I still need to add the entitlements?

Mary Vanatta

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[Community Alums]

Hi Mary,

You don't need to, but you might find some value in doing so, particularly if you are not allowing everyone in the company to use the software under the volume contract. The example I was trying to describe would be to add the entitlements as a way to identify users you've trued-up on your contract. You could also just do this based on numbers, too, though.

Ben

[Inactive_Use603]

You can write a script from the software counter detail table to pick only not entitled workstations with valuation as 1.

With that record set you may insert the entitlement record either for the asset or for the user, from the counter you can get the software license record reference via the software model, assuming that you just have one software license record it will be easier.

Just run the script in Script Background module.

This is how I set the baseline for my entitlements.

[Community Alums]

Interesting approach. So you took it to be that all computers or users with the software installed were supposed to have it to set your baseline (based on the valuation matching up, which would also hit the appropriate suites). Then you could go back through to remove those situations where the user or machine should not have the entitlement?

Interesting approach. I like it, and might need to try that out. Thanks for sharing, Oscar!

[Inactive_Use603]

To answer your question:

"Then you could go back through to remove those situations where the user or machine should not have the entitlement?"

you should not remove the records for people/machine who is not entitle from the counter detail table, instead you need to set a process to start a request in order to remove the software from the machines that are not entitled; say these machines have not followed the process to have a valid license from the organization. They are defaulters.