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Microsoft Assessment and Planning (MAP) Toolkit is a free and useful tool. It is an inventory, assessment, and reporting tool that can help to assess the IT infrastructure of your desire and determine the right technologies that your IT needs. Administrators can use this to determine whether or not the particular windows infrastructure, user’s device, and software application are adequately prepared to migrate to a new operating system, cloud environment, or server version. A professional can run this MAP toolkit on any Microsoft computing device and make a complete list of the entire windows network. MicrosoftAssessment and Planning Toolkit is made up of four main elements which are: l   MAPSetup.exe- this contains MAP and files that an IT administrator might need to set up a local SQL Server Database Engine. l   readme_.html file- this contains the details of what the administrator needs to run MAP Toolkit and problems related to it. l   MAP_Sample_Documents.zip...

Definition wise difference between SPLA and Traditional VL- Definition of SPLA- “ SPLA is a Service Provider License agreement that allows an organization to license Microsoft products and use them to provide software services to the customer.” In this, all the services that are required by customers must be licensed including backend SQL database. Definition of Volume Licensing - “Volume Licensing is a service offered by Microsoft , is for organizations that require multiple licenses, but not the software media, packaging and documentation supplied with the full packaged product (FPP).” SPLA vs Traditional VL l   First and foremost SPLA is used to provide services to other customers and other external users but Volume licensing is only used for internal use. l   SPLA can be installed in a data center managed by the service provider and can be accessed remotely but VL can only be installed on-premise or on dedicated machines with an outsourcer. l   In SPLA service provid...

SPLA is a program that provides hosting offers. These offers are for service providers and are used to rent or lease Microsoft products every month. Service providers use SPLA to provide applications to their end customers. The reporting of the SPLA must be done by you every month on or before the fixed date set by your distributor because it is your obligation but the thing is, you need to know what y ou have in order to manage it and do the reporting. Octopus makes this task easier for you in a few simple steps: l    It collects data from your entire infrastructure. l    It calculate s the cost of each product used with accura cy. l    Then it generates an SPLA report monthly. l    It also looks for any improvements and any chance of reduction in cost and applies that. Octopus provides its customer with great insight into their IT infrastructure and server them three solutions regarding SPLA licensing and cloud migration which are ...

The Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) allows Independent Software Vendors or service providers to license eligible Microsoft products (monthly basis). For a three-year agreement term, vendors host software services and applications for their users. Moreover, the SPLA supports a variety of hosting scenarios to help provide highly customized solutions to end-users. Furthermore, you can also make SPLA Reports via Powershell which is a very effective way. To participate in the SPLA program, you need to follow these things: ·          Comply with Services Provider Use Rights or SPUR The SPUR states some rights and conditions that should be followed by a customer while the use of the products is licensed under the SPLA. ·          Provide monthly reporting Also, you need to submit a monthly use report or zero use report (non-consecutive) to your SPLA reseller. It is also required to report on ...

Many companies have hundreds of software licenses; making manual monitoring of all licenses is nearly impossible. You can imagine what will happen when one of those licenses needs a renewal or what if you need to cancel some licenses because a project just ended. In this case, SAM tools are the best option. Many companies also use them for audits. The Microsoft SAM Audit Tool helps organisations to do various audit tasks. Also, a SAM tool manages time-consuming tasks. It alerts employees when licenses need renewals, cancellations, or updates. Additionally, because of this, companies can easily make software available to new employees or remove unnecessary software when an employee no longer uses it. This tool also helps companies in managing costs. Without SAM, a company may buy more licenses than necessary. The main thing is that a SAM tool can help organisations in predicting the exact future software costs based on the organisations’ previous purchasing activities. All the ab...

SAM tools help you understand what your software environment looks like, and how you can optimise your licenses to save money. Cost savings and risk mitigation are the two main aspects of the SAM tools, which is the reason IT companies invest in them to handle the functioning of SPLA licenses. Apart from this, these tools also act as the Microsoft SAM Audit Tool , means very helpful in auditing. Every company wants to reduce operationally and support budgets over time. The spending on Microsoft SPLA licensing, and infrastructure costs are closely aligned to business strategy. So, the use of SAM tools becomes very beneficial in managing the IT budgets and security parameters. Microsoft SAM tools keep your environment safe; look at how: Security Benefits This is the main benefit of SAM tools as they can help you identify the different systems and applications in your environment. Moreover, by gaining knowledge about these systems and applications, you can identify vulnerabilities...

In the case of Microsoft SPLA, SharePoint Server Standard and Enterprise licenses are provided under the Subscriber Access License, which means each end customer’s internal users would need a license. Service Providers will use the software to provide internal users access to content and applications. Therefore, the use of SharePoint Server software that is limited to internal users must be licensed under SharePoint Server SALs. Remember that SharePoint needs Windows and SQL, which means if you create an SPLA SharePoint license report , then you will also have to report Windows licenses covering the Operating System. In contrast and in order to provide SharePoint Server as a Website or Hosted, the licensing scheme would shift from SAL to Processor License. Customers may use the software to provide information to External Users. The SPLA reporting for hosters includes all information. There are two ways of licensing SharePoint Hosting in SPLA: The first scenario is : SharePoint H...