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Flathead County IT director to relicense Microsoft tools, projects $75,000 in annual savings
Summary
The county’s new IT director told commissioners the department plans to consolidate Microsoft licensing, replace duplicated services and move to a unified ecosystem that will reduce duplicate subscriptions and strengthen security, with potential annual savings of about $75,000.
Flathead County’s IT director presented the department’s proposed budget to the Board of County Commissioners on May 1 and described a licensing cleanup and cybersecurity plan intended to modernize services and reduce long-term costs.
The director said a prior licensing configuration had assigned multiple overlapping licenses to users — including both local Office installations and cloud licenses — which raised costs and left the county unable to fully meet some of its policy commitments for…
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