Every case below is anonymized to a sector and a rough size to protect client terms. Each figure is verified against the signed outcome. We defend end customers in Microsoft license audits and hosters in SPLA audits, and we never take vendor money.
A Big Four auditor reconstructed 36 months of monthly positions and proposed an uplift near the top of the range. We rebuilt the SAL base from operations data, completed customer mapping, and corrected product version mapping. The corrected base cut the back fee and the uplift was negotiated to the floor.
The auditor read Microsoft telemetry from Azure and Microsoft 365 as unlicensed deployment. We ran our own assessment first, then reconciled entitlement against real use and proved that most flagged installs were already covered. The reconciled position fell well under the 5 percent clause.
The reseller presented a true up that counted every assigned license as consumed. We audited actual usage across the estate, removed dormant and double counted seats, and rebalanced the E3 and E5 mix to match real need before the true up was submitted.
Several months of authentication logs were missing. Rather than concede the auditor's assumed counts, we reconstructed defensible monthly figures from billing and provisioning records, documented multi tenant boundaries, and separated the non negotiable back fee from the negotiable uplift.
A self verification is a contractual demand the customer cannot decline, but the timeline and the evidence are open to discipline. We set the response schedule, assembled the entitlement record, and presented a clean position before Microsoft applied its own counting methodology.
The account team presented a SAM engagement as a free optimization. We helped the customer decline the initial review, run an independent internal assessment, and respond from a controlled position. No gap was handed to the vendor before it was understood internally.
Figures are verified against the signed outcome and anonymized to protect client terms. Any figure marked indicative reflects a representative range, not a single client.
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