Harold scrolled through the SCCM licensing pane. It showed 1,250 active managed devices. The problem was, Redoubt Mutual only owned 500 SCCM client management licenses (CMLs). The other 750 were ghosts—old kiosk machines, decommissioned laptops, and a server rack in the basement that nobody had touched since the Clinton administration.
Harold was the sole Systems Administrator for Redoubt Mutual. He’d inherited the SCCM (System Center Configuration Manager, though he called it "System Center Constantly Malfunctioning") environment from a guy named Kevin, who had quit after winning the lottery and left behind only a cryptic sticky note: "The key is in the thing." sccm license key
But SCCM didn’t care about sad stories. It cared about the product key. Harold scrolled through the SCCM licensing pane