We are seeing unprecedented use of Office 365, including 44 million daily active users of Teams. And Microsoft's free six-month subscription is certainly adding to this number and enabling the remote worker. But this also means a large license bill is coming your way, and probably a cost optimization project too.
As Peter Drucker, the influential thinker on management, said, "What gets measured gets managed." And your Office 365 and Azure AD licenses need to be measured and managed, so that you get the value for your investment, as well as find ways to reduce unnecessary costs. So here are a few questions you should ask yourself.
First, for those who have the free E1 licenses as part of the promotion, are they being used? This will help you determine if you should keep those once the six-month promotion is done. For those who have Teams enabled, are they using Teams, and how much? And for those who have advanced features of Teams, who are using those, and how much? And the same for your other services.
It's also important that you understand how many licenses you have available to reassign. These are just a few of the questions that you'll need to ask yourself in order to effectively manage your Office 365 licenses. Learn how to answer these questions and more by visiting Quest.com/Microsoft-Remote-Workforce-Solutions.
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