Real-world example

I’ve presented a lot of information in this chapter about licensing and how to properly determine the correct number of licenses needed for a compliant deployment. If you have followed what I’ve written, it should be relatively easy to calculate the correct number of licenses. But you need to make sure that you fully understand how decisions you make as an SA can have a direct impact on license numbers and types. The following example is based on a real-life scenario I came across.

As I mentioned, I live in the UK (so I’m going to be talking in Great British Pounds (GBP)). A government entity had hired a Microsoft partner to come in and help them get their new D365 Finance and SCM system in place. As a large partner, they had many people who we assigned to the project. During the discovery phase, the SA convinced the client that they were going to create too many purchase requisitions on a daily basis, so it would be best for each user to...