Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Chase Thomas

Hari R Pulapaka

Benjamin M Schultz

Balaji Balasubramanyan

Amber Tianqi Guo

Tushar Suresh Sugandhi

Ahmed Saruhan Karademir

Abhijat Singh

Gupta Shubham

Carlos Ernesto Peza Ramirez

Robert D Donner

Vlad Riscutia

Harold E Beyel, Iii

Carlos Peza Ramirez

Environment type validation can provide a tamper-resistant validation of the computing environment within which the environment type validation is being performed. Such information can then be utilized to perform policy management, which can include omitting verifications in order to facilitate the sharing of policy, such as application licenses, from a host computing environment into a container virtual computing environment. The environment type validation can perform multiple checks, including verification of the encryption infrastructure of the computing environment, verification of code integrity mechanisms of that computing environment, checks for the presence of functionality evidencing a hypervisor, checks for the presence or absence of predetermined system drivers, or other like operating system components or functionality, checks for the activation or deactivation of resource management stacks, and checks for the presence or absence of predetermined values in firmware.

Virtual environment type validation for policy enforcement

Technology is disclosed herein for license aggregation in a license data structure. In at least one implementation, program instructions stored on one or more computer readable storage media, when executed by a processing system, direct the processing system to at least, responsive to a launch of an application, create a license file request comprising a plurality of user identifications (IDs) and send the license file request to a licensing service. The processing system is further directed to obtain a single license file for the application from the licensing service, the license file comprising a user license defining features of the application to be enabled based on licenses pertaining to the plurality of user IDs. The processing system is further directed to enable the plurality of features of the application based on the user license, and initiate presentation of the application in accordance with the enabled plurality of features.

License data structure including license aggregation

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