Category: Microsoft Licensing Compliance

SQL Server Licensing Tip – Product Use Rights

April 22, 2014December 30, 2013 Tim HegedusMicrosoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, SQLLeave a Comment

SQL Server Product Use Rights Licensing

Server Licensing and Moving Virtual Machines

April 1, 2014December 30, 2013 Tim HegedusMicrosoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Virtualization, WindowsLeave a Comment

Microsoft Server Licensing and virtual machines.

Microsoft Audits: Enterprise Agreements doesn’t offer protection anymore

March 26, 2014 Tim HegedusMicrosoft, Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Software auditLeave a Comment

While Microsoft Enterprise Agreements may have previously afforded some protection from an audit, that is no longer the case. Microsoft audits can happen to anyone now.

PCI Compliance Considerations for XP’s End

March 7, 2014 Scott D. RosenbergCompliance, Licensing Change Alert, Microsoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft Licensing Tip, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft: News You Can Use, PCI (Payment Card Industry)Leave a Comment

We have talked about the end of support for Microsoft XP at length and its implications for users in regards to security and licensing, but thought it would be important to also make our clients and friends aware of the potential for non-compliance with PCI-DSS for any organizations using Point-Of-Sale (POS) payment application environments.

Subscription Based licensing – Pros and Cons

March 4, 2014December 30, 2013 Tim HegedusMicrosoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft Licensing Tip, Subscription based licenseLeave a Comment

Considerations for subscription-based licensing – Pros and Cons.

Two Upcoming Webinars – Microsoft and Oracle Live Q&As – Sign up now!

March 3, 2014 Scott D. RosenbergMicrosoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft Licensing Tip, Microsoft Software Assurance, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft: News You Can Use, Miro News, Oracle license, Oracle Licensing Compliance, Oracle Licensing Tip, Oracle: News You Can Use, Software audit, software licenseLeave a Comment

Sign up today for our next two Live Q&A Webinars – and get your questions in early to ensure that we can get to them. Looking forward to “seeing” you there!

Satya Nadella: Clean Up the Licensing Mess!

February 12, 2014February 15, 2014 Scott D. Rosenberglicensing, Microsoft, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, Microsoft: News You Can UseLeave a Comment

ZDNet’s Ed Bott, writing about the Six challenges for Microsoft as the Satya Nadella era begins, lists as Number 4: Clean up the licensing mess. Enterprise customers experience real pain every day thanks to Microsoft’s unbelievably complex licensing rules, which are practically sadistic. Glad we aren’t the only ones saying this!

Does MSDN need to be licensed for SQL server database?

January 7, 2014December 30, 2013 Tim HegedusMicrosoft, Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, Microsoft Licensing Compliance, SQL, Subscription based licenseLeave a Comment

The Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) is a subscription based offering for all commercial and consumer products that Microsoft offers. The subscription is Per User. MSDN can be a very cost effective way to secure licensing for your development and test environments. So, rather than licensing Windows Server or SQL Server or SharePoint Server plus all of those requisite CALs, each person with an MSDN license may install and use that software on any number of devices to design, develop, test […]

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