Retrofit your SMS/SCCM installation to add Software Asset Management functionality with the following add-ons.
If there are any other tools, tips or tricks you know of to enhance SMS/SCCM please let me know and I’ll add them to this listing.
BDNA for SMS/SCCM Normalization
LicenseWatch SCCM 2007 Option
Managesoft ECM
Provance
PS Soft (BDNA)
Snow License Manager for Microsoft SMS/SCCM
Thank you for the feedback and comments on this post.
“I don’t see mention of the built-in Asset Intelligence w/ConfigMgr. True you need R2 to have it, but it’s there. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb632714.aspx You can import your MVLS data, you can also import non-Microsoft license data: http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/jgilbert/archive/2008/07/17/importing-non-microsoft-license-data-into-the-configuration-manager-2007-sp1-site-database.aspx
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Seriously, keep it simple.”
“We use Microsoft OneNote
Also:
Provance IT Asset Management for Microsoft System Center
http://www.provance.com/en/Solutions/Provance_and_Microsoft_System_Center.html
Licence Dashboard is Europe’s leading Software Licence Management tool, facilitating and driving more Software Asset Management (SAM) programmes than any other application on today’s market. Licence Dashboard is an essential tool for any organisation looking to hone its licence management process. Without it, managing software assets becomes an arduous and resource intensive task, one which suppresses the savings you could be making.
Licence Dashboard full integrates with all the leading IT Asset Management tools, including Microsoft SCCM, and with its built in licence knowledge helps organisations control the complex behavior of the licence evidence and automatically aggregates your licence entitlement, ensuring that all licence constraints and dependencies have been correctly adhered to. In addition, comprehensive audit trails are available illustrating the references between base licences, upgrades and maintenance renewals.
[...] One chink in this otherwise impressive armour is the absence of long term software usage (Where it is argued the most software savings can be made over the longer term). However BDNA also offer a ‘Normalise’ offering which takes feeds from other data sources such as SCCM or other Enterprise tools which might be able to provide usage. See also Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager SAM Add-Ons. [...]