how to evaluate the Microsoft license consumption

[winvarma]

Hi Forum,

Need inputs on how the below license consumption can be calculated if fnms supports and other ways to calculate if its not supported by fnms.

WinRmtDsktpSrvcsCAL ALNG SubsVL MVL PerUsr

Windows Server External Connector - As per the reference guideNot supported by FNMS what other ways to check the consumption?

Win10UsrOLSActv Alng MonthlySub Addon E3

APPS_O365_LICENSE_Dmstc_Calling_Plan

APPS_O365_LICENSE_SKYPEFORBUS_PSTNCONFERENCING

Regards,

[kclausen]

@winvarma -

For the Microsoft Remote Desktop CAL, you typically grant a user access to remote desktops through an Active Directory security group.  Any User Accounts in those groups have access to a Remote Desktop and need a CAL.  With such an arrangement, you can create a Business Adapter to connect to AD and extract the User Accounts within those specific Security Groups and allocate them to your RDS User CAL License to generate consumption.

In regard to your Windows Server External Connector, there is the following description of this license on the following Microsoft Site:  https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/client-access-license

An EC license assigned to a server permits access by any number of external users, as long as that access is for the benefit of the licensee and not the external user. Each physical server that external users access requires only one EC license regardless of the number of software instances running. An "instance" is an installed copy of software.

So, this should be managed within FNMS as a simple Device license.  You would need to allocate each Windows Server to this license that has services being accessed by an "external" user, which would typically be servers that support a public website.  FNMS would count the number of allocate servers and compare this count against the number of purchases.

The last 3 items are all Office 365 services, and should be managed by FNMS when you connect to your Office 365 Portal with the FNMS Office 365 connector.  Or, you connect to your Office 365 Portal using Flexera SaaS Manager and integrate SaaS Manager with FNMS.

[winvarma]

Hi Kclausen,

Appreciate your detailed inputs on the query and will try the suggestions for the licenses 1 & 2. We indeed have office 365 integration enabled with FNMS and still the last 3 licenses related to O365 shows zero consumption and does that mean that none of the users were using those services and unless until a user in the office 365 tenant is assigned to use the particular service by the admin we will be having zero consumption as per my understanding. How to determine where the data is inconsistent.

Regards,

[kclausen]

@winvarma  - Consumption for all Office 365 products and services are based on assigning users to each subscription within the portal.  If you don't see consumption in FlexNet Manager for these services, then it is likely that one of the following scenarios exist:

1) Your Office 365 Administrator has not assigned any users to these subscriptions within the Office 365 Portal

2) If users have been assigned, then it is possible that these are new Office 365 services offered by Microsoft and the current Office 365 API does not return the assigned users for those services

3) If users are assigned and the API is returning the assigned users, then it is possible that these are new Office 365 services offered by Microsoft and Flexera needs to update the Product Use Rights library for Microsoft to correctly process the data to show consumption.  For example, there may be services that should not be processed as a stand-alone subscription, but should be bundled into your existing E5 subscription.