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Authorizations can be reassigned from one MSL title to another using the Current Authorizations form, which is available as a fly-out menu option off of the Managed Software left menu option.

This capability is useful, for instance, for changing the MSL title associated with a given authorization.  An example might be to change the MSL title from SQL Server Standard by Core to SQL Server Standard by Server/CAL in order to cause the authorization to consume the correct and available licenses.

This capability is only available through Mass Update on the Current Authorizations form.  Follow the instructions for Mass Update.  One of the available fields to choose for mass update is the assigned MSL title.  If that is changed, the MIE will actually perform a harvest action on the current authorization and a new authorization for the requested title.  The new authorization will carry forward all of the business and other assignment information from the old authorization, including the License Units Required (LUR) count.  All credit and debit records will be updated as appropriate.  This capability represents a single step way of performing a bulk harvest followed by a bulk authorize.

NOTE:  Read the MSL setting for mutually exclusive family titles for rogue authorization.  If the authorization you are reassigning was established as a rogue, as soon as you change the MSL title assigned to the authorization, the rogue authorization logic will create another authorization the next time auto-discovery data is presented for consolidation.  The result will be two authorizations for the same title (if the change was done to change the license metric to use, as was shown in the example).  To stop this behavior, you need to set up mutually exclusive families for rouge authorization.