Creating an agreement entitlement

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To add a new Microsoft Products agreement entitlement:

1. Navigate to the Entitlements → Agreements screen and click New Agreement, located just to the right.
2. In the New Agreement page we will choose a specific set of options to show how this page works. For more details on all the fields in this page please refer to New Agreement page.
3. There are lots of fields on the page but a few are mandatory. The mandatory fields have an * next to their name. 
4. The page is split into a number of sections, we will start in the Basic Information section.
5. The Management Group is the first mandatory field, it is set by default to Global, but it can be changed to any of your existing Management Groups, in this example we will leave it at Global.
6. The next mandatory item is the Vendor field. We know that the vendor is Microsoft Corporation.
   

Now we set the following fields and click Publish. We could have clicked Save draft, if we were in the middle of making changes and didn't want to make the agreement active, the draft agreement would then be saved.

• Name to Microsoft Product Agreement (this should be the name of your agreement)
• Number to Ag123456 this is not mandatory, but should be the Agreement Number
• Entitlement Term Start Date defaults to today's date, but should be set to the date your agreement starts, in the example we will use today's date
• Duration to 36
• Total Cost to $8000

1. We will now link the new Agreement to our existing License for Microsoft Visio.
2. After the actions above, we are returned to the Entitlements - Agreements screen.
3. Select the Agreement just created and click Edit.
4. Scroll to the Entitlements Links section and click + Add link in the Children section.
5. Scroll to find the Visio Professional License, and then  click on this and the green tick we have previously seen will appear.
6. Click Add.
7. Click Publish.

Now we'll add a new license for Microsoft Project (refer to Creating a license entitlement for the steps to achieve this, not forgetting to Publish once added): 

1. Enter the following details for the license:

• • Vendor:  Microsoft Corporation
  • Title: Project
    
  • Version Type: Colloquial
  • Version: 2016
    
  • Edition: Professional
  • Metric Type: Device (this is the default)
  • Quantity: 20
  • Entitlement Type: Perpetual
  • Start  date: to the date the license started, or is due to start on. In our example it's set to the default of the current date
  • Costs $200

Adding a new maintenance entitlement for Microsoft Project:

1. Return to the Licenses / Maintenances screen. Click the New Maintenance button.
2. We then set the details for the Maintenance click Publish when entered:
   • Vendor:  Microsoft Corporation
   • Title: Project
     
   • Edition: Professional
   • Quantity: 20
   • Entitlement Type: Subscription (default for maintenance)
   • Duration: 36
   • Unit Cost: 50
     
     
3. We will now link the Microsoft Product Agreement to our new License for Microsoft Project.
4. Navigate to Entitlements → Agreements screen.
5. Select the Microsoft Product Agreement and click Edit.
6. Scroll to the Entitlements Links section and Click + Add link in the Children section.
7. Scroll to find the Project Professional License click on this and the green tick we have previously seen will appear.
8. Click Add.
9. Click Publish.

To make a published license entitlement take effect, you have to run the Compliance report:

1. Switch to the Settings→Configuration→Connectors page and click on the Execute button. 

2. The Execute action popup is displayed, enter the following:

   • Repository: Default Compliance
   • Action: Generate Report - Compliance.
3. Navigate to Monitoring→Process Log and wait for the action to complete, this will be Compliance and will have a green tick in the Status column when complete.

Now that the compliance report has been run, to see the impact of implementing the entitlements: