Keeping track of AD RMS License usage
Microsoft AD RMS is a troublesome licensing issue for any organization that has had to use it for a period of time. As users come and go, licenses are expected to be returned and reused by the next person, within reasonable boundaries. Quoting the Microsoft Product Terms (Sep 1 2016) "9. License Assignment and Reassignment Before Customer uses software under a License, it must assign that License to a device or user, as appropriate. Customer may reassign a License to another
Enumerating Licensed Sharepoint Usage in Powershell
Counting licensed sharepoint users in a sharepoint farm has been a tricky business, due to the way Sharepoint does not delete users from its user list (this is by design). You probably don't want to be removing deleted users from your farm either, as it will change the document audit trail. This means you need to 1. get a list of users from your sharepoint farm 2. cross-check this list of users against active users in your active directory It gets even trickier when you need
