Why is FNMS recommending we add a freeware application to a license in the License Recommendations?
The specific case is a recommendation to add '.NET Framework Client Profile 4' to a Microsoft Visual Studio with MSDN Professional license.
Is this something that should be reported to Flexera so they can fix it?
NOTE: Whenever we Ignore a recommendation, we have to document why we ignore it so this just makes extra work for us.
Jun 17, 2020 05:19 PM
@RobertH - Yes, your summary is accurate. Once you go into the MVLS Portal and assign a user to an MSDN subscription, that user is consuming a license even if they do not have a computer assigned to them.
Jun 19, 2020 07:35 AM
Hi
Note that the MSDN licenses already include other freeware. This recommendation comes in because it is new software/new softwrae version.
Suggest you accept the recommendation.
Jun 18, 2020 04:13 AM
@RobertH - I agree with @Nico_Erasmus.
The official MSDN subscription bundle includes hundreds of Microsoft Products, many of them classified as "Freeware".
Jun 18, 2020 07:17 AM
This is what I am hearing. Let me know if I am getting this wrong.
Given the generic concern: if a recommendation asks to add software to a license but the software is freely available by other means without any purchase requirement, any installation of the free software would also incorrectly trigger consumption on the license that requires purchase.
It sounds like specifically for MSDN, the concern is irrelevant because MSDN is subscription (named user), installations of the software do not effect consumption. Therefore, recommendations for MSDN are constructed using the list of software associated to MSDN by Microsoft without filtering freeware out.
Jun 18, 2020 11:04 AM
@RobertH - Yes, your summary is accurate. Once you go into the MVLS Portal and assign a user to an MSDN subscription, that user is consuming a license even if they do not have a computer assigned to them.
Jun 19, 2020 07:35 AM
Hi @RobertH
For the applications on the estate to show as consumed against the license:
Regards,
Jun 19, 2020 07:50 AM