Licensing Headaches
Licensing is a nightmare for any admin. We hate it and we even hate the bloke that has to make sure we comply. A distant vaguely related subsidiary of ours recently got hit with a million pound bill for license infringement by Microsoft. Bow whatever you feel about Microsoft or their prices or anything it is for the most part black and white when it comes to paying for licences. You use the software you, know how much of which bit of software you are using and you pay (through the nose) for it. That’s the deal. If they come calling as they are allowed to under the terms of their licence agreement you get charged full whack for everything that is installed that you haven’t got proof of licences for. The subsidiary in question rather ineptly decided to make everyone a local admin of their PC/Laptop so they could get all the badly written bits of software running. That is stupid in itself and sign of a weak IT department. Not surprisingly the users installed everything going on their lap...