293- Ari Harrison on Microsoft Licensing Chaos and Streamlining IT Operations

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5 • 49 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Ari Harrison Currently serving as Director of IT at BAMCO, Ari Harrison leads the company’s technological strategies and remote work solutions. With a robust background in both IT services and solution integration, Ari brings decades of experience to his role in enhancing operational efficiencies and tackling complex IT challenges. Ari Harrison on Microsoft Licensing Chaos and Streamlining IT Operations What should you consider when tackling the complexity of Microsoft licensing? In this episode of Dissecting Popular IT Nerds, Ari Harrison, Director of IT at BAMCO, dives deep into the latest changes in Microsoft’s licensing model and its implications. We also explore his experiences with remote work solutions, managing international teams, and the essential role of automation in modern IT management.

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0:00.0	all right welcome everyone back to dissecting popular IT nerds today
0:10.4	Ari Harrison director of IT at Bamco
0:15.9	welcome to the show pleasure to have you on thank you sir
0:20.3	uh I have been perusing.
0:22.1	Is that the right word?
0:22.8	Am I doing this today?
0:23.9	I'm on my second cup of coffee, and it's 2 o'clock in the afternoon, so I'm behind by about 10 cups.
0:31.0	So we'll get there soon.
0:32.7	You went to the University of Colorado Boulder.
0:34.6	I went to CSU, so of course we're sworn enemies.
0:39.4	Oh, no. If I had known that before, if I had known that before you came on the show, then I probably would have denied you.
0:43.8	But, you know, what are we going to do? There you are. So you're probably smarter than me,
0:48.6	because it's harder to get into that school than it is to CSU. So you can, we'll give you that.
0:53.2	Okay. The one thing I did'll give you that, okay?
0:54.5	Sure.
1:00.5	The one thing I did notice that you've talked about recently is Microsoft's decision to uncouple teams.
1:03.7	And Microsoft really,
1:05.4	they make licensing probably the easiest thing in the world.
1:08.8	There's never any complications there.
1:10.5	There's never any confusion. We all know how you should buy Microsoft. So anyways, let's just start with that
1:16.9	because I'm wondering if you have any thoughts on that, what that means to everyone that maybe
1:22.6	switched over or didn't last minute or was totally prepared for COVID. It was just the first thing that came to mind when I saw you mentioned teams.
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