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If you enter an owned entitlement position using the MIE's user interface or the ASN Processor, and then subsequently reduce that owned position by editing the record (after at least one Consolidate has run), the MIE will automatically un-migrate sufficient licenses that it already migrated to bring the count of licenses migrated against the current owned position down to match the new owned position.  This un-migration is performed by Consolidate. 

The reverse migration may take up to one additional Consolidate run to take effect.  The first thing Consolidate will do is to deallocate owned entitlements from various licenses.  Once that de-allocation takes place, then Consolidate, on a subsequent run, will see that licenses that had been migrated have now lost their entitlement coverage, and that will trigger the reverse migration.

For example, if you originally entered an owned position of 10 entitlements, causing the MIE to automatically migrate 10 licenses, and then subsequently reduce the owned position to 7 entitlements, the MIE will detect the change and will automatically un-migrate 3 licenses, putting them back to the version they were prior to the migration.

Also, if any of the migrated licenses were being used to cover authorizations that are higher in version level than the version to which the license is returned (after un-migration), the license record will be deallocated from covering the authorization (since, when it is returned to its original lower version, it cannot be used to cover a higher-level authorization).