Patent ID: 8474057

Claim:
A computer program product comprising one or more physical storage devices having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing system, cause the computing system to formulate a user interface the computing system, the user interface comprising: a license conflict discovery mechanism configured to automatically discover when a license conflict exists for a license, and to discover a plurality of available resolution methods for resolving the license conflict; an administrator rights determination mechanism configured to discover a type of an administrative user that is associated with the user interface, and to determine one or more administrator rights of the administrative user of the user interface, the one or more administrator rights affecting which one or more of the plurality of available resolution methods are suitable for the administrative user for resolving the license conflict; a resolution method determination mechanism configured to determine the one or more of the plurality of available resolution methods that are suitable for the administrative user based on the one or more administrator rights determined by the administrator rights determination mechanism; and a resolution prompt configured to prompt the administrative user of the user interface to resolve the license conflict, wherein the resolution prompt includes only the one or more of the plurality of available resolution methods as determined by the resolution method determination, while excluding one or more other of the plurality of available resolution methods that are not suitable for the administrative user.