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The Application Licensing tab is an interface to the applications installed on the assets in your network. The left-hand pane lists publishers. Expand a publisher to view the applications associated with that publisher. Expand an application to view the Licenses and Installations nodes for that application.

Ribbon Commands

Licensing

The following options relate to the visibility of applications and licensing operations.

Ignore Application(s)/Include Application(s)

Applications that do not require a license and as such can be safely ignored so they will not by default be displayed within AuditWizard and will not be included in any reports. Occasionally however you may later decide that a specific application should no longer be ignored and in this case you can elect to display ignored applications by checking the View Ignored Applications checkbox as detailed below and then clicking Include Application(s) to clear the ignored flag.

New License

Select this option to begin the process of creating a new license for the selected application in the left-hand pane.

Edit License

Select this option to edit the definition of the currently select license in the left-hand pane.

Delete License

Select this option to delete the currently selected license in the left-hand pane.

Filters

These options allow the data being displayed to be filtered to zoom in on the Publishers or Applications which are of most interest.

Publisher Filter

This option allows you to select one or more publishers which are to be shown within AuditWizard. Frequently you are only really interested in a sub-set of the software installed on your computers at any one time. For example, Microsoft might request to check that you are correctly licensed for their product range and by filtering to only show Microsoft products, you can easily target those applications. Filtering by publisher in no way affects the underlying data and a filter can be removed or modified at any time to show more or less data.

View Included Applications/View Ignored Applications

Applications within AuditWizard can be flagged to be ignored if they do not require a license. These checkboxes control the display of either independently.

Aliasing

Aliasing is the renaming of an application to match that of another, to simplify display and the number of application names. For example, if there were Adobe Reader 9, Adobe Reader 9.1 and Adobe Reader 9.2, the latter two could be aliased to the first to reduce three applications to one, Adobe Reader 9. The alias can be reversed. The principle also applies to publishers.

Alias Application(s)

Opens a dialog where applications can be aliased or aliases reversed.

Alias Publisher(s)

Opens a dialog where publishers can be aliased or aliases reversed.

Quick Report

There are three options, Report on all compliant applications, Report on all non-compliant applications and Report on all applications, for quick overview reports.

Export

Use the buttons to export the current data set to PDF, Excel or Microsoft XPS formats.

Next: Reports.

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