Why not get pre-emptively audited from Microsoft, they might team you with a LAR or licensing partner who will (should) have tools for this. It is not free, you are committed to it, and might take a while but Microsoft and/or the LAR might share the costs, making it financial more attractive.
That way not only do you get normalized data, but you have a partner who can make some real sense of the data in business and licensing terms. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: 08 April 2016 04:49 To: [email protected] Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software You've just made my point - it is worth something (and thus not free) because the amount of time and effort that is needed to create the normalization data source is not small. My point was that if anyone did this for free, I wouldn't trust it as someone else said. There simply is far too much work to be done for it to be accurate and correct for any free product to be able to deliver anything of quality. J From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerousek, Jeff Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 5:10 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software I'm betting everyone here runs Windows Server, SQL, Adobe, etc. not sure how that wouldn't be worth much. I have a hard time subscribing to the thought that paying for something makes it trustworthy. I've personally seen 6 figure software products not get normalization right. Thanks, Jeff Jerousek From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Sandys Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 3:48 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software Honestly, if it were free, it wouldn't be worth much. Do you realize how much data there is to normalize in the first place? J From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerousek, Jeff Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 3:34 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software Is there any community-driven (i.e. free) data normalization out there for SCCM? Thanks, Jeff Jerousek From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 3:19 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] RE: Microsoft licensed software BDNA does it for you.... I'm just sayin'. ;-) ________________________________ John Marcum MCITP, MCTS, MCSA Desktop Architect Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP ________________________________ [MVP] <https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/overview> [MMS] <http://mmsmoa.com/> From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian McDonald Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2016 10:04 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] Microsoft licensed software I'm running some queries in my environment to collect data on Microsoft products (True-Up Time). I'm wondering if there is a reference page anyone is aware of so I can view only Microsoft licensed products. It's quite tiresome filtering out the queries to exclude all of the 'free' stuff. Please let me know if anyone is aware of where I might be able to find something like this. Thanks, Brian M. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer.
