General Tab

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The General tab lists all the SKU properties for the selected SKU.

The following columns (listed alphabetically) are available.

Please keep in mind that some columns may be optional and accessible by means of the column chooser to limit the default number of columns displayed.

Name Details
Description

A description of the product represented by the SKU. In license templates, this description includes the publisher, product name, version, license type, and language. This description is used as the license name if a license is automatically created for a PO line item containing this SKU.

Language
A code that identifies the language relevant to the product represented by the SKU. In general, publishers use two-character ISO codes (such as EN for English). In addition to the standard codes for languages, there are two special codes widely used:
  • NULL — Language details not available
  • X — Unknown.
License type The software license type that defines how the software related to the SKU can be used, which determines what properties are available for the license, and how compliance is calculated for the license. For example Device license, User license, Enterprise license and so on.
Maintenance in months

The duration of maintenance agreements associated with the product. This is specified as a number of months, such as 12, 24, or 36.

This property is only available when the Maintenance type is Fixed.
Publisher

The name of the company that publishes the software related to this SKU.

Purchase level The Purchase level is points associated depended on how many products you purchase in a specific product pool. The more products purchased in a particular product pool, the better the purchase price will be. Purchase level values are represented by letters: A, B, C and so on. A level is beginner level, and D is big enterprise level.
Purchase program The publisher's purchasing program under which this SKU is available. In the absence of a purchasing program, this field may give other details about the software purchase, such as whether it was an off-the-shelf retail purchase (or Fully Packaged Product, as Microsoft terms it), or supplied as on OEM license delivered with hardware, and so on.
Purchase type
The nature of the item purchased under this SKU. This purchase type is quite distinct from the purchase Purchase type in the properties of the purchase itself. Furthermore, if at the time of purchase processing (when the purchase that identifies the SKU is linked to a license), this SKU Purchase type is given priority over the purchase type in the purchase properties. The values available are:
  • Full version for a stand-alone software license that is not an upgrade
  • Upgrade for a purchased upgrade to a software product for which you already hold a license
  • Maintenance for purchases of support, usually for a specified period
  • Media for purchases of disks, documentation, and the like to support software licenses that you own (or are acquiring at the same time as the media)
  • Subscription for time-limited licenses that can be renewed by regular payments (this type applies for both the initial subscription and also for subsequent renewals).
Quantity

For software license purchases, this is the number of license entitlements authorized by the purchase of (a single unit of) this SKU. For most SKUs relating to software purchases, this field will show the value 1, but where a SKU covers some kind of bundling of many entitlements, the value may go higher. In general, for software license purchases, the result of multiplying of the purchase Purchase quantity (how many of this SKU were purchased) and this Quantity value (the entitlements bestowed by a single unit of the SKU) should equal the value of the purchase Effective quantity field.

SKU

The stock keeping unit number or code.

This value should match the Part no./SKU displayed in the purchase properties, in some cases taking into account the % wildcard character that may be present in this field.
Version

The release number (or release identifier) of the product.

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