Prepare for a surprise Microsoft audit

Getting a surprise audit always causes headaches for service providers, and it's understandable given all the work that comes with it. Microsoft can order an audit at any time and as a user, you have signed an agreement to comply.

By issuing extensive audit requests, the Microsoft audit team focuses on examining certain sectors and geographies regularly. They are trying to correlate licenses a corporation has paid for with what they are using. Of course, you don't want to be the one who is caught with unpaid licenses.

Microsoft Audit SPLA

How do license audits work?

Microsoft sends a bunch of letters to firms that are under suspicion of using unlicensed software. In case you don’t follow or follow the next steps, you can face legal actions from Business Software Alliance. Doing so can make you face repercussions that you don’t want.

Result of abusing license compliance.

Sometimes software license infringement can be unintentional since managing software licensing in any firm can be difficult. Even if you're using correctly licensed software, if you can't prove the audit trail, you might risk a fee on top of the human resources strain of manually organizing all the license data.

Microsoft License Compliance Audit


How Octopus Cloud can help?

You can benefit from having thorough historical documentation to help establish compliance with your Microsoft software licenses while preparing for an audit and proactively identifying possible software licensing breaches. As a result, the Octopus cloud provides reports, allowing you to more readily keep records of your assets and their usage. We offer the best Microsoft software inventory tool to provide accurate and fast use reporting, as well as a clear audit trail for audits and invoicing reasons.
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