Service Provider 'Self-Certification' Letter from Microsoft

Are you a Services Provider? A SaaS business? Let's discuss common pitfalls in provider economics and compliance and ways to avoid them in a live Q&A session.

Why should you care? $500,000,000 reasons. This is about how much we have protected in total in several SPLA Audit Defence exercises.

Live Q&A by Alexander Golev and Daryl Ullman, partners in SAMexpert.

Service Provider Q&A Live: SPLA, CSP, BYOL, SaaS, ISV Hosting

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JOIN US AT THE NEXT LIVE Q&A! WE USUALLY TALK ABOUT

🟡 Migrating Microsoft Licenses to the Cloud at minimal cost and risk
🟡 Microsoft License Management
🟡 Microsoft Negotiations: getting the best deal possible
🟡 What are the main frustrations in Microsoft hosting (SPLA, CSP) business
🟡 Your contractual obligations as a provider
🟡 How can you indemnify and protect yourselves from non-compliance claims
🟡 The rules of BYOL, or how end-customers may bring their own licenses
🟡 Using volume licenses and CSP for hosting instead of SPLA
🟡 Your compliance obligations (aside from the licenses)
🟡 Internal use of licences (by you)
🟡 The importance of knowing what services you provide
🟡 Inventory and reporting data
🟡 CSP-Hosting & SPLA reporting tools and solutions
🟡 Top ways to maximise your ROI

HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?

Have you received an AUDIT notice?
Do you have doubts about your SPLA and CSP reporting?
Do you want to protect your business from end customers' non-compliance?


LET'S CONNECT


Let's figure out a way to fix your licensing headaches the best way humanly possible, with zero BS and zero waste.

#Microsoft #Hosting #Cloud

CHAPTERS

00:00 3 kinds of audit letters from Microsoft
01:07 Official, proper audit
02:55 "Assisted review" with a 3rd party involved
04:43 Risks of complying with this "non-audit"
06:50 "Self-certification" letter
08:14 Why you should not "self-certify"
11:05 Auditor fees and penalties
11:35 FAQ: What you are allowed to do with SPLA licenses

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