Site License Advisory Team

March 29, 2013 meeting

Agenda1. Microsoft Campus Agreement Negotiations2. MS Agreement RFP for Reseller3. Software Upgrades, Renewals, and Retirements

1. Secunia 6.02. Parallels3. PowerTerm Pro4. Gaussian/GaussView5. McAfee

Microsoft Campus Agreement

• Current Agreement expires 6/30/2013– Old agreement may be renewed as-is– New agreement costs the University less

• Includes full campus desktop option for students• Addition of virtualization

– Discussion with WiredOut regarding offset

• Most departments will not see major changes to budget requirements over FY13 unless FTE numbers change

Microsoft Campus Agreement

• FTE Change, FY13 – FY14– Fac/Staff:

• FY13: 23,379• FY14: 23,870

– Growth: 491 FTE

– Student• FY13: 53,977• FY14: 53,347*

– Growth: -630 FTE

* FY14 not yet adjusted for Fac/Staff who are also students

Microsoft Reseller RFP

• IUC is preparing to go to RFP for a reseller• Already on the list:

– Ability to change reseller with 30 days notice– Ability to choose a different reseller than the

IUC if necessary– Price list for Select products provided monthly– Quotes:

• 4 hour SLA to respond• 24 hour SLA to return a quote• ? hour SLA to complete processing & provide key

Microsoft Reseller RFP

• Issues I know of:– Quote turn-around (est. average 3 business

days)– Account team confusion– Media delivery– MSDN/TechNet processing

Microsoft Reseller RFP

• What is your biggest single common issue with Insight or another historical reseller?

• What are minor issues you have experienced?

• What is your expectation on how long it should be from query to “product-in-hand”?

• If we stayed with Insight for MS products, what are your feelings?

Secunia 6.0/SCCM Plugin

• Upgrade to SCCM 6.0 went well:– minor hiccups, but nobody died.

• SCCM Plugin is not included in our current contract– Vince from Engineering has been asking if

people will chip in• Quote arrived last night: $2,000 to add it to co-term

with out agreement, no strings

Other Renewals/Retirements• PowerTerm Enterprise has been renewed

– No new codes or new versions• Parallels has been renewed

– A new code was provided, current one still works (no products should hard-fail)

– Secures upgrades through April 2014– Yearly renewal to obtain upgrades required

• Gaussian/GaussView was retired from OCIO offering – no more new copies– Version on license was 9 years old, and it had 5

active users on campus; licenses are perpetual

McAfee End of Life

• OCIO and OSUWMC have agreed to retire McAfee before September 2013– Target to have McAfee removed from all

systems: June 30, 2013• Current recommended alternatives include

Microsoft System Center Endpoint Protection (formerly Forefront) on all platforms.

Questions/Comments

• Next meeting April 30, 2013, 10 AM, 580 Baker Systems