Moving from network to local install

[Anonymous]

First post so please be patient with me.

I have a gentleman in our office that refuses to get off of AutoCAD 2005. The rest of our office is running Autodesk 2008 products and are starting to migrate to 2009. The whole office is on a Network license and everything has be running fine for now.

Here is my issue, once we install the 2009 license manager our network license for AutoCAD 2005 is dead. With that being said we have decided to uninstall the network install of 2005 and just install it locally on his machine.

Well that didn't go so well as planned. The uninstall went fine , but after we installed 2005 locally on his machine that is where the trouble started. After doing a little registry cleaning we managed to get it to run. Now it is asking us to register the product. OK fine..... This Crashes AutoCAD 2005 completely. NO GO on that! So we had to reinstall the 2005 network deployment for him and everything work fine.

Normally I would tell this user to F*** Off and use the newer version,but he kind of holds the Title of SR. Vice President in our company.

If anyone has any ideas on getting this local install to work I am all ears. We are almost ready to get him a new machine and just start from scratch, but that is a last resort.

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Install the 2005 LM and license file on his own PC.

--Cy--

wrote in message news:5967192@discussion.autodesk.com...
First post so please be patient with me.

I have a gentleman in our office that refuses to get off of AutoCAD 2005.
The rest of our office is running Autodesk 2008 products and are starting to
migrate to 2009. The whole office is on a Network license and everything has
be running fine for now.

Here is my issue, once we install the 2009 license manager our network
license for AutoCAD 2005 is dead. With that being said we have decided to
uninstall the network install of 2005 and just install it locally on his
machine.

Well that didn't go so well as planned. The uninstall went fine , but after
we installed 2005 locally on his machine that is where the trouble started.
After doing a little registry cleaning we managed to get it to run. Now it
is asking us to register the product. OK fine..... This Crashes AutoCAD 2005
completely. NO GO on that! So we had to reinstall the 2005 network
deployment for him and everything work fine.

Normally I would tell this user to F*** Off and use the newer version,but he
kind of holds the Title of SR. Vice President in our company.

If anyone has any ideas on getting this local install to work I am all ears.
We are almost ready to get him a new machine and just start from scratch,
but that is a last resort.

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

That is a good option. I am still open to other ideas and or a fix for the local install all together.

[Anonymous]

The advice Cy gave you is the way to go unless you convert the network
license to a standalone or have the network service running elsewhere. If
that is something your reseller is willing to do.

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"pcovell" wrote in message news:5967412@discussion.autodesk.com...
> That is a good option. I am still open to other ideas and or a fix for the
> local install all together.