You described it well.  Computer assets are not being used so they are eligible for reassignment to meet requests for computer assets. ... View more

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.  ... View more

My prototype appears to work using the approach I described earlier: I have not tested it thoroughly.   I am not entirely pleased with the approach because it does not make use of the license "Consumption per device, user or access use rights configurations provided for use with virtual environments.    An enhancement request was created by Flexera as noted another reply but the priority is such that it will not happen anytime soon.  I will likely use a refined version of the prototype for my needs. ... View more

We are controlling access to the RDS application using an Active Directory group.  We deploy an application to desktop that runs the RDP link to the application for users with access.   This was deployed a couple of years ago but recently we added an application to the environment that has license implications. My research currently is taking the following approach: Create a license that tracks usage of the RDP link executable on the user computers. Use the Active Directory group to compile a list of users to import into FNMS. Identify computers owned by the users.  I am using the ComplianceComputer.ComplianceUserID to identify ownership.  Import these computers. Identify computers, not owned by a user with access, but from which users with access have executed the RDP link application.  Import these computers. Import custom evidence for the virtualized application. Import installation evidence using the virtualized application evidence on the target computers. Link the virtualized application evidence to the application which is associated with the device based license. I don't have a successful run yet but am hopeful.  Currently, I am using FNMS to construct source information but if I can get the prototype to work correctly, I will look at attaching to the RDS database as the source. ... View more

I build an new Inventory adapter for users.  The source for the adapter is ... FNMS.  So, once a user is put in the system, it does not get removed when all other sources (SCCM, AD, O365, etc...) no longer have the user information.  You can build the criteria in the new adapter to keep the user information that you want to keep. ... View more

Each Compliance User that comes into FNMS from an inventory import records the import connection (a.k.a. O365, FlexNet Manager Suite, and SCMM) that has supplied information for the user.  Looking at the \ProgramData\Flexera Software\Compliance\ImportProcedures\Inventory\Writer\RemoveMissingUsers.xml file, it appears that logic is to remove any Compliance User that has been identified in the ImportedMissingUsers table and has no import connections.    It does not appear that the Automatic or Manual connection type influences the operation.    ... View more

Thank you.  I set it up as a User license and, in addition, will have the team manually update allocations when people are assigned access to the Primavera P6 databases. ... View more

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