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The Admodum Microsoft practice closes SAM engagements inside the Audit Defence Programme and the Renewal Programme. Engagements run as fixed fee, contingency or annual retainer.
The Microsoft Software Asset Management engagement arrives in the buyer’s inbox as a courtesy letter and lands on the procurement desk as a multi-million-pound exposure. This 24-page paper sets out the buyer-side defence: the SAM and SAS notification logic, scope contestation at first letter, MAP toolkit treatment, the evidence-gathering protocol, settlement framing and the closing memorandum that does not become a commercial uplift. Written from the buyer’s side. None of it carries reseller margin or audit-subcontract fee.
A senior Admodum advisor will follow up to confirm receipt and offer a private read of the document if you would prefer a guided walkthrough. There is no obligation. The paper is the deliverable.
The Microsoft engagement letter that opens a SAM programme is invariably framed as a cooperative review: a chance to optimise licensing, a chance to identify unused entitlements, a chance to clean up the deployment record. The framing is real. SAM is the lightest of the three engagement tiers and a buyer who runs a SAM well will sometimes recover entitlement and reduce cost.
The Admodum buyer-side reading of the SAM engagement is that the cooperative framing sits on top of the same commercial logic that drives the formal audit: the SAM engagement closes with a Microsoft view of the buyer’s compliance position, and the SAM team will hand the closing position to the Microsoft commercial team for conversion into a remediation purchase, a renewal uplift or a contractual amendment. The buyer-side defence runs the same protocol whether the engagement letter says SAM, SAS or formal audit; the differences are in the third-party reviewer composition and the audit-clause framing, not in the underlying commercial mechanic.
This paper sets out the ten-section protocol Admodum applies across the Microsoft audit window: the first-letter response, the scope contestation, the MAP toolkit treatment, the parallel evidence file, the ELP reconciliation, the settlement framing and the closing posture inside the next EA renewal.
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The Admodum Microsoft practice closes SAM engagements inside the Audit Defence Programme and the Renewal Programme. Engagements run as fixed fee, contingency or annual retainer.