What data is required for a Microsoft audit?

I've put a draft list of data requirements for a Microsoft review / audit based on the 'SAM Services Baseline Guide' published by Microsoft.

Is there anything missing ? What other data points are required?

An exhaustive list of devices, with manual inventory if required to audit non-networked devices. Microsoft doesn’t like estimates.
Device types details (e.g. Desktops, Laptops, Secondary Laptops, Thin Clients, Smart Phones, Physical / Virtual Servers)
Server / Cluster setup (Number of physical hosts, physical processors per host, maximum number of VMs possible per host, physical cores per processor, hyper threading details, cluster configuration)
How are servers used / configured? E.g. Load balancing, DRS, High Availability, Affinity, Pooling
Remote Desktop Services setup (are Microsoft products installed within the RDS environment, can this be accessed from a third party device i.e. Home PC or non-domain device. How is access to the RDS environment restricted?
Visual Studio – how many developers are there? How are development environments managed?
How are CALS calculated?
Use of OEM/FPP and explanations
Personal devices? What are they accessing?
Software Assurance coverage
Installed products grouped by Applications, Servers and Systems

Source: ‘Microsoft SAM Services Baseline Guide’

Status: Open Feb 22, 2016 - 02:40 PM

Microsoft Licensing, Microsoft Audit, Microsoft Review, Audit Data

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Deepika

Feb 23, 2016 - 01:21 AM

Most of the the things are covered but expliclty we can mention :
SQL Servers and how are they licensed like per core or per user/device CAL.
Visual studio Non-MSDN/ MSDN -Subscription based license.
Virtual Desktop Access License.
All license/installs transferred in acquistion, merger or divestiture.

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Gemma Walker

Feb 23, 2016 - 03:27 AM

Office365 Reports confirming activation/usage
AD Device and User lists
HR Reports to support User counts
AntiVirus reports - to support device counts (secondary source)

SQL Is the biggest one, the discovery information is limited, and quite often poorly reported by discovery so a mix of manual checks and updates against the discovery reports (which also align against AD Device).

The data collection tends to be a list of basic requirements and then specialist requests depending on the customer environment.

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Kylie Fowler

Mar 04, 2016 - 10:50 AM

Check and re-check that the MLS includes all majority owned legal entities and no minority owned ones (unless you have a contractual amendment to allow their inclusion.

This is particularly important if there has been a lot of M&A activity or you are a federated organisation with a large number of brands and business names that licenses could have been purchased under by different groups.

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