Leo M asked a question.
Users that have been granted access to certain software are added to AD. AD is used by SCCM to distribute the software to the user. Is there a way to assign the needed software license automatically to that user in Snow8 in addition ?
Is it possible to use the import data function to import a list of users in Snow in such a way that the specified license is assigned to all these users ? We don't want that assigning software to user results in 2 tasks, one in AD/SCCM and one separately in Snow because the risk that these two won't be in sync is high.
It might be possible to do something, but i assume you would only be wanting to do this for applications with a User based Metric for the license and not all applications?
Just tried this an when the application metric is set to user you can do an import/update of a license setting the license import file columns of Metric and Assignment Type to User.
However you cannot then assign the license to a user during import/update, this needs to be done on a user by user basis in the assignments tab of the license after you create it.
Yes, only for apps with user based metric. The license is already in Snow. I'm only looking for a way to assign a license to hundreds of users by importing a list containing two columns : A column that contains the (hundreds of) users and one column that contains the license name or SKU that's already in Snow. I understand there is no way to do this. I just have to assign the license for each user by hand (?).
For user metric licenses you can actually add user license assignments, and there is a template available.
The template only contains 5 fields:
P.S: to automate this, you could create a PowerShell script that reads all members of the AD group and then generates the csv file. Then define an automated import in the SLM Web Configurator and drop the csv file into the import folder.
Piece of cake 😇
Hi Axel, thanks for the clarification.
I only reviewed the initial step and documentation in the Wizard that said it wasn’t possible, not step 3 that provides different details and extra options.
I agree, this is something you hardly ever discover, especially the thing with the License ID and the External ID. I just stumbled into this a while ago. 😀
Hi Axel, It works, however we ran into a new "situation" . For a certain application, we have 5 bundles of licenses registered in Snow, these bundles were purchased on a different point in time. One bundle with 30 licenses, 3 bundles containing 15 licenses, one bundle containing 5 licenses. For each bundle I filled out the External ID with the same value (since it's the same application). The application has been granted to 68 users via deployment by SCCM. We got the list from SCCM containing these 68 users. I added the column with the External ID for all these users and imported the list in Snow. I hoped Snow to be smart enough to assign a license to all these 68 users by spreading the users over the different license bundles (containing the same External ID). Unfortunately it does not work that way. Only the first 30 users a license was assigned to but Snow isn't smart enough to assign a license for the others users by using the other bundles for that. Do you know a solution to overcome this ?
Hi Leo,
I have only tried this with one single license.
So I would say you have two options now:
I personally would prefer the first option. Looks like you can add the same External ID to several licenses, SLM can't handle this. An External ID obviously has to be unique.
Kind regards,
Axel
Hi Axel,
I was already afraid that I would have to choose between these options 😟 Thank you for your answer !
Best regards,Leo