microsoftauditdefense.com is an independent buyer side advisory. We defend end customers in Microsoft license audits and hosters in SPLA audits. We take no money from Microsoft and no money from any auditor. Our only client is the organization being audited.
Most licensing help in the market is conflicted. Resellers earn on what you buy. Some advisors carry vendor relationships that quietly shape their advice. We do neither. We never sell licenses, we never take vendor money, and we never run the auditor's playbook. That independence is the whole point, because the auditor's opening position is built to be high, and only an advisor with no other master will push it down for you.
We work two clearly separate problems and we never blur their mechanics.
Microsoft verifies licensing three ways. A SAM engagement is voluntary and sales led. A self verification is a contractual demand you cannot decline. A formal audit runs through a third party accounting firm under the MBSA audit clause. The auditor produces an Effective License Position, and the contract clause means that if unlicensed use reaches 5 percent or more, you reimburse verification costs and acquire licenses at 125 percent of price. We rebuild that position and defend it.
SPLA is monthly, pay as you consume, and verified for every monthly cycle across a 36 month lookback by a Big Four firm under the MBSA audit clause. Back fees at the price file rate are not negotiable. The penalty uplift of 25 to 125 percent is. We separate the two, defend the base, and negotiate the uplift down.
We reduce your exposure or we reimburse our service fee. We can offer that because the opening number almost always overstates what you owe. It is the clearest possible statement that our interests and yours point the same way.
We operate from New York and London and serve clients across both regions. We capture every enquiry through our secure form so that sensitive audit detail never sits in an open inbox. Tell us where you are with Microsoft and we will respond quickly.
We sit between you and Microsoft and we never take vendor money. Fixed fee or gainshare, both backed by our guarantee.
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