NHS Fundamentals courses
Licensing Fundamentals and Software Asset Management Best Practices for the NHS!
Bytes is pleased to launch two new courses, developed particularly for our NHS customers – Licensing Fundamentals and Software Asset Management Best Practices. These courses are offered to you free of charge, as part of the Connecting for Health Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. For a full breakdown of the content of these courses, please see below. You can also download a PDF overview to review offline.
NHS Fundamentals / SAM course
Duration: Full day
Courses run from 9:30am - 3:30pm
Licensing Fundamentals session covers:
- Introduction to Licensing
- What is a licence
- The end user licence agreement
- Use rights for the different licence types
- FPP
- OEM
- Volume licence Agreements
- Vendor licensing programmes
- NHS Infrastructure Maturity Model
- Software Asset Management
- Licensing the Virtual Environment
Followed by a SAM focused session covering:
- Where are my Licences?
- Compliancy
- Good Licensing Practice
- Challenges
- Risks
- Solutions
- Getting Started
- This is the followed by a short taster session virtualisation
Course code: FUND/SAM NHS
Pre-requisite: None
Licensing the Virtual Environment course
Duration: Half day
Courses run from 9:30am - 12:30pm
- Become an expert in licensing virtualised environments
- Understand the general licensing rules
- How to license VMware on both desktops and servers
- How to license Windows and Office in a virtual environment
- How to license Microsoft server products in a virtual environment
Course code: VMWARE NHS
Pre-requisite: None
Bespoke courses
If you need to gain a deep understanding of a specific vendor set or require assistance understanding a particular component around software licensing or software asset management, we can tailor a course for you. For assistance, please call 020 8786 1536, or email tellmemore@bytes.co.uk


