Creating and evaluating the licensed software

The Application Management Wizard provides you with two creation possibilities, an automatic and a manual one. In this first exercise we are using the automatic option.

1. Select the Wizards > Application Management menu item or launch it directly from the dashboard.
2. In the Introduction window the automatic option is preselected in this step, therefore click Next right away.
3. In the Add License Units window click the Add license units from the software catalog icon above the list box.
4. From the drop-down list below the Only Show Discovered Software box select the Microsoft Corporation option.
5. The following list box display all Microsoft software that was found on at least one of the devices of your network that were already inventoried. Find the Microsoft Office 2010 entry or any other entry if you are using another software for this example and check its box.
   The unit is automatically added to the list of Selected License Units to the right.

   Note:

   To deselect a license unit, clear its box in the right pane under the Selected License Units .

6. Click the OK button to confirm.
7. Click the Quantity of Licenses box and enter the number of licenses you purchased for this unit.
8. Click the Next button.
9. In the Assigned Devices window click the Add Device icon on top of the list box.
10. Select the group containing your target devices from the list.
11. Click OK .
12. Click Finish .
13. In the Confirmation Yes .
    The focus of the console is moved to the newly created object.

The software license object is created, assigned to a device group and defined as a group that is not authorized to have this software installed.