Sounds like they may have been looking for something specific. Though, they do return back in VAMT as "RETAIL" channel keys, even though they aren't. That's crazy, and reeks of them trying to find something else if that's true - as just receiving a key is in no way shape or form an entitlement or license grant, and sounds exactly like what these kinds of keys are. We have never seen any proof, we just got the keys to activate stuff and that's it. When I asked about reselling such a license to clients it went awfully quiet. The license cost me 69,99 (retail was 800-900-ish if I recall correctly), I didn't get the full results of the check BUT he said the license was valid and I would be allowed to use it in a production environment.
I have bought a single Server 2016 license a couple of years ago because a friend of mine who works at MS in Ireland asked if I could provide a license for them to check. It has sparked so many debates with other MSPs and some even started selling/using the same party the client uses. We cleared this with legal to make sure this couldn't come back to hurt us and the owner signed a waiver basically saying we were not involved in any way, shape or form in the aquirement of the licenses we just typed in the keys.Īnyway, they passed without as much as a warning. Back then it was server licenses, server user CALs, SQL server license, SQL user CALs, RDS licenses. But everything server related has always been bought "refurbished". I was instructed to grant full admin access to them.Ĭlient always bought workstations directly from Dell so those licenses were fine. There was a court order and the 3 dudes doing the checks were accompanied by police. The on-prem audit was extremely thorough. Completely different story with a bunch of lawsuits. We are 99% sure a fired employee reported the client, said employee was fired for trying to steal company data after said employee said they were leaving for a direct competitor. We weren't around for the first audit but the second audit was on-prem with a party that facilitates audits/checks based on evidence of misconduct.
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