Combined Products Usage Summary

The Combined Products Usage Summary page provides summary information about software usage in your environment. To generate a report about usage for specific products, in the actions pane, click Generate report. To specify a date range on which to report, in the actions pane, click Configure date range. The results pane for the Combined Products Usage Summary page is grouped into the following sections.

Combined Products Distinct Usage

This section compiles the count of standard and enterprise users and devices that access at least one of the server products in the compiled list. A user or device that accesses more than one server product counts as one distinct usage.

To change which Microsoft® server software is compiled in this section, in the Tasks section of the actions pane, click Configure combined products. In the Configure Combined Products dialog box, select which products you would like to include.

Windows Server®

This section provides summary information about the total number of each Windows Server® edition discovered in your environment and the total number of users and devices that logged on to at least one of the discovered Windows Server® installations. For specific information, in the navigation pane, expand Software Usage Tracking, and then click Windows Server®. The results pane provides information that you can group by Computer Name, Product, Edition, or Version number.

For more information about how to determine the number of CALs you need based on your usage, see the Windows Server License Tracking white paper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191544.

Office SharePoint® Server

This section provides summary information about the total number of Office SharePoint® Server installations discovered in your environment, and the number of users and number of devices found to have connected to at least one Office SharePoint® Server installation in your environment. It also gives the total number of users and devices that have accessed one or more installations of Office SharePoint® Server with enterprise features turned on.

For specific information, in the navigation pane, expand Software Usage Tracking, and then click Office SharePoint® Server. The results pane provides specific information about Office SharePoint® Server that you can group by Computer Name or Product.

For more information about how to determine the number of CALs you need based on your usage, see the Office SharePoint Server License Tracking white paper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191544.

SQL Server®

This section provides summary information about the total number of each edition of SQL Server® in your environment and the total number of users and devices that logged onto at least one of the discovered servers.

For specific information, in the navigation pane, expand Software Usage Tracking, and then click SQL Server®. The results pane provides specific information about SQL Server® that you can group by Computer Name, Product, Edition, or Version Number.

For more information about how to determine the number of CALs you need based on your usage, see the SQL Server License Tracking white paper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191544.

Exchange Server

This section provides summary information about the total number of Exchange Servers in your environment. It also provides the total number of mailboxes discovered in your environment and the number of mailboxes that have enabled enterprise features associated with them.

For specific information, in the navigation pane, expand Software Usage Tracking, and then click Exchange Server. The results pane provides specific information about Exchange Server that you can group by Computer Name, Product, Edition, or Version Number.

For more information about how to determine the number of CALs you need based on your usage, see the Exchange Server License Tracking white paper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191544.

Forefront Endpoint Protection Server

This section provides summary information about the number of Forefront Endpoint Protection servers and clients in your environment. The summary distinguishes between agents running on desktop and server operating systems.

For specific information, in the navigation pane, expand Software Usage Tracking, and then click Forefront Endpoint Protection. The results pane provides specific information about Forefront Endpoint Protection that you can group by Computer Name, Product, Version number, or Component (Client or Server).

For more information about how to determine the licenses you need based on the usage, see the Forefront Endpoint Protection License Tracking white paper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191544.

System Center Configuration Manager

This section provides summary information about the number of Configuration Manager servers and client agents in your environment. The summary distinguishes between agents running on desktop and server operating systems.

For specific information, in the navigation pane, expand Software Usage Tracking, and then click System Center Configuration Manager. The results pane provides specific information about Configuration Manager that you can group by Computer Name, Product, Version number, or Role. Role signifies the Configuration Manager assigned server role.

For more information about how to determine the number of CALs you need based on your usage, see the System Center Configuration Manager License Tracking white paper at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=191544.

LYNC Server

This section provides summary information about the number of Lync servers, and the number of users and number of devices found to have connected to at least one Office SharePoint® Server installation in your environment. It also gives the total number of users and devices that have accessed one or more installations of Office SharePoint® Server with enterprise features turned on.

For specific information, in the navigation pane, expand Software Usage Tracking, and then click Lync Server. The results pane provides specific information about Lync Server that you can group by Computer Name or Product.

Generate Reports

At any time while viewing reports in the Combined Products Usage Summary pane or in a specific server product pane, you can generate a report. To create a report, in the Actions pane, click the Generate Report task.

If you click the Generate Report task while viewing the Combined Products Usage Summary pane, the tool will generate a report for each server product. The Combined Products Distinct Usage Summary data and Active Devices and Users data are not generated as a report.

To generate a report on only one product, in the navigation pane, browse to the node for the product for which you want to generate a report, and then, in the Actions pane, click Generate Report.

A description of the worksheets that are generated for software usage reports can be found in the “Interpret Reports” section of the Getting Started Guide.

Note: To ensure you have the most accurate information, run an inventory just prior to parsing log files and generating reports.

Configure Date Range

You can set a date range for the period of usage data you want to view. The date range that you set affects all reports under the Combined Products Usage Summary node. For example, if you set the date range while viewing the Windows Server® report pane and then traverse to the Office SharePoint® Server report pane, the date range remains the same. If you want to report on data over a different period of time than you set for Windows Server® usage, you will need to reconfigure the date range.

You can configure the date range while viewing any of the panes under the Combined Products Usage Summary node for server software that requires log files to be parsed. Usage data for server software that does not require log files provides a “point in time” snapshot of your inventory so it does not have a date range associated with it.

Software Usage Tracking Reports

Software usage reports provide both summary and detailed information about server versions and editions as well as user and device usage. Summary reports provide a count of users or devices for all servers of a given type for the date range that you configure. Detailed reports provide information about specific users or devices and the servers they accessed. You can use these reports to analyze software usage to determine whether device CALs or user CALs would more effectively meet your needs. For more information about Software Usage Tracker reports, see the Getting Started Guide.

Active Devices and users

This section displays the summary of all devices and users that are active on the network and might be “qualified” in the sense used in the Enterprise Agreement. This can help IT managers keep their Active Directory accounts current, and can also help with overall license management.

For specific information, in the navigation pane, expand Software Usage Tracking and then click Active Devices and Users. The view shows devices with Windows operating systems (both active and not), Total Devices Discovered, and Total Users Discovered in Active Directory. The view also shows the Total Device to User Ratio, which is the ratio between Total Devices Discovered and Total Users.

To derive what subset of the devices and users is active one can click on Generate Report and filter the data in the Device Details worksheet according to activity indicators such as last logon date or last password reset date.

For more information on a key scenario in which this report can be used, see information about the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=228287. Customers that have (or are considering) a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) can use this data to help establish the Qualified Device and User count at the start of the agreement, as well as during the EA True-up process.

Other MAP data can be used to infer Qualified Device and User counts as well as overall device counts (Windows operating systems and other operating systems).

Specifically

• Combined Products Distinct Usage counts unique devices and users based on their usage of Microsoft Server Products.

• The Instance Summary view displays the complete list of devices for which IIS and/or Windows Security logs have been parsed. See the Usage Tracking section in the Getting Started Guide for more information.

• MAP collects Active Directory information about users in the organization. This data can be retrieved by running a SQL query directly on the database.

MAP data should not be used as the sole source for determining software license compliance.

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