Like many, I have a multi-year Microsoft agreement with 2 enrolments, being 1 x SCE and 1 x EAS.

I was wondering what best practices there are for storing these in Snow.

For instance, I have created a master agreement, reflecting the master purchasing agreement with Microsoft, and then a sub-agreement for each enrolment. So far so good.

Next, I'm wondering whether it's better to create each license for 1 year only and then duplicate for each year, aligned with the agreement's anniversaries. Or would it be better to create 3-year licences, ie. aligned with the agreement. Bearing in mind that the MS agreements allow you to true-down each year.

Obviously the Microsoft BOM has each year split out for each license, with annual costs. However I'd love to hear from others who manage this and why you manage it your particular way.

The downside to recording each license for each year separately is that it's a lot of work. However it becomes relatively straightforward to adjust subsequent years if you true-down, or true-up for that matter.

Downside to a single licence for each product over the 3 year agreement is that it's harder to "read" in subsequent years, and adjustments have to be made either manually or via additional license purchases at each anniversary etc.

Then the other thing is, perhaps I should create a separate agreement for every contract year, attached to the master. Eg. EAS-year 1, EAS-year 2 and so on. Attach licenses to the appropriate year, using maintenance/subscription periods per the 1 year agreement, and they're all attached to the master.

I could mock them all up and try all the different methods but it's quite a lot of work, surely there's others in the same boat.