Microsoft Audit
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Never seen this one before Microsoft hired a third party Service provider to do an audit on us. And Microsoft is sending us the bill from the Service Provider. Seems odd.
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I just went through a 3rd party audit... but no bill... that is very odd. If Microsoft does it SAM audit, it is on Microsoft's dime.
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@Jason said:
Never seen this one before Microsoft hired a third party Service provider to do an audit on us. And Microsoft is sending us the bill from the Service Provider. Seems odd.
That is very very fishy. Are you fully confident that the bill came from Microsoft? If they are double billing you for their MS licenses, that likely would be a breach of good faith and violate their sale of the software to you.
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It is a SAM Audit but they are doing it through a very large/well know IT contractor. Microsoft says do to our size the normal processes aren't going to work well so they are doing it this way. This Company also has a inventorying software which automates some of it for Microsoft/Us.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
Never seen this one before Microsoft hired a third party Service provider to do an audit on us. And Microsoft is sending us the bill from the Service Provider. Seems odd.
That is very very fishy. Are you fully confident that the bill came from Microsoft? If they are double billing you for their MS licenses, that likely would be a breach of good faith and violate their sale of the software to you.
Yep the invoice came from our Rep.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Jason said:
Never seen this one before Microsoft hired a third party Service provider to do an audit on us. And Microsoft is sending us the bill from the Service Provider. Seems odd.
That is very very fishy. Are you fully confident that the bill came from Microsoft? If they are double billing you for their MS licenses, that likely would be a breach of good faith and violate their sale of the software to you.
Normally I'd agree but it's coming from Microsoft for sure.
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@Jason said:
Yep the invoice came from our Rep.
Send it directly to legal and get his boss on the phone to confirm that this isn't an insider scam, because that's what it sounds like. Confirm that Microsoft is declaring that their software now has ongoing, unavailable, undeclared additional costs to operate. Because if so, this is major news that The Register will want to know. This will totally change every business' calculations as to the cost of Windows.
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Also.. Didn't know they did onsite visits to verify. That's the last step in this process.
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@Jason said:
Normally I'd agree but it's coming from Microsoft for sure.
Even so, I'd assume a scam until proven otherwise. MS is a big company and a disgruntled rep could do an insane amount of business before getting busted if he is using an MS email address.
This sounds like extortion unless there is something that really, really clearly shows that your company agreed to double pay for software that they already bought.
Likewise, why don't you send MS a bill not only for all of your IT time in doing the audit, but charge for site access and bill them for the cost of the MS bill?
Since there is a bill, just decline the audit. Say that you feel that it's not something you want. A bill implies that they sold you an optional service. Just opt not to get that service.
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So, Microsoft wants to verify that you are properly licensed. Ok, understandable. They also want you to pay for it, now we enter the....
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Yeah, I would just turn them down. That simple. This onus is on them for them. They want to bill for it, too bad. Not how it works. You can't just bill someone for something they didn't agree to. Otherwise I'd bill every company in the world for IT consulting, even if they don't know who we are.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Yeah, I would just turn them down. That simple. This onus is on them for them. They want to bill for it, too bad. Not how it works. You can't just bill someone for something they didn't agree to. Otherwise I'd bill every company in the world for IT consulting, even if they don't know who we are.
That's what I'd do as well. Oh you asked a question on a public forum, here's your $300 bill.
Pay me.
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Seems the rep wasn't used to the Deloitte audit. Microsoft is suppose to pay Deloitte. But yes they will still be doing onsite visits and we will be required to either give them access to everything or login ourselves to show them.
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@Jason said:
Seems the rep wasn't used to the Deloitte audit. Microsoft is suppose to pay Deloitte. But yes they will still be doing onsite visits and we will be required to either give them access to everything or login ourselves to show them.
Now that sounds more like the standard hassle.
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@DustinB3403 said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Yeah, I would just turn them down. That simple. This onus is on them for them. They want to bill for it, too bad. Not how it works. You can't just bill someone for something they didn't agree to. Otherwise I'd bill every company in the world for IT consulting, even if they don't know who we are.
That's what I'd do as well. Oh you asked a question on a public forum, here's your $300 bill.
Pay me.
Haha it was more like $300,000. And it's a 6month process for us.
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@Jason But if I could get $300,000 out of every random person on the internet I wouldn't still be working.
So I gotta try for the smaller sums they might just pay to go away.
Duh!
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@Jason where can I send the invoice?
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Whoa whoa whoa. I already have student loans guys. How much does my generation need to get hammered? Good grief.
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@wirestyle22 until you're bleeding so profusely that your blood turns into money in my pocket?
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@Jason said:
Seems the rep wasn't used to the Deloitte audit. Microsoft is suppose to pay Deloitte. But yes they will still be doing onsite visits and we will be required to either give them access to everything or login ourselves to show them.
Um yeah, Microsoft is supposed to pay Deloitte.
