Chapters and their answers
Found money in the Microsoft bill — rerouted, never removed
$43,200 a month in licenses, each waiting for a user.
2,760 of 4,200 paid seats are active (65.7%).
counted from Contoso's illustrative records·priced at Microsoft’s published price of $30 per Copilot seat, assumed as your Copilot seat price until you set your own · Set it
4,200 paid Copilot seats100%
In use this period 2,760Assigned, not used yet 1,280Never given to anyone 160
Add it up
| What | The working | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Assigned, not used yet | 1,280 seats × $30 | $38,400 |
| Never given to anyone | 160 seats × $30 | $4,800 |
| Every month at this seat price | $43,200 | |
| A year at this rate | $518,400 | |
472 more seats waiting for a user sit on 5 other paid subscriptions — counted, not priced.
12 months at this rate; a priced count, not a measured result.
Set your own price in Settings
Microsoft licenses today · other software licenses next
Link to this workingThe move
3 seats have already moved to people who asked; 1,440 still wait for a user.
Open the reassignment plan
Take it to your meeting
In Teams: once your admin turns it on, leaders get this same summary as a card.
The deckThe License Report as PowerPoint — one slide per question. This cover as a PDFThe sheet, ready to print or save. ListenThis page, read aloud.Waiting for a user — a paid seat nobody has been assigned to yet, or assigned and not yet opened.
Scroll sideways for the remaining columns.
| Run | Counted on | Frontier score | Assigned seats in use | Assigned seats ready to activate, a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Run 4 | 24 September | 78 | 2,760 | $38,400 |
| Run 3 | 25 August | 74 | 2,757 | $38,490 |
| Run 2 | 26 July | 70 | 2,754 | $38,580 |
| Run 1 | 26 June | 66 | 2,751 | $38,670 |
Every run is stored and never re-scored; nothing has moved since the newest one, so it is the reading on this page. The score is allowed to go down.