Automatic refund License LTU

[andremeier]

Hello!

We work with Autodesk deployments through SCCM. The computers are staging automatically over a period. These have stand-alone license installed.

Is is not possible to automate the deactivation of these licenses over LTU, VBS or something?

Thanks for your help and kind regards

Andre

[TravisNave]

An investment in Network licensing would greatly benefit you.  Since you can refresh your workstation images easily with network seats, because its license is on the server.  Might be something to talk to your reseller about.  It's a one-time only charge.  And in most cases, you can recoup the cost by eliminating seats that are not needed.  You can usually get by with less network seats than stand-alone because they are shared usage. 

Otherwise, imaging and licensing stand-alone is a pain.  I do not recommend it as you will continually have issues. 

[andremeier]

Hi Travis
Thank you for your reply. We also have network licenses. However, some of our users work with laptops, travel with them and using the Autodesk Products without internet access (no connection to our environment). That's the problem. So is it correct, that there is no way to automate the license refund?

Kind Regards

[ampster401]

the users on the network licenses can borrow licenses to take with them when they are not at the office and connected to your network...the catch is they need to borrow them before disconnecting from your network.

Users have the ability to borrow a license thru the Help menu typically depending on the Autodesk software you are referring to.

[TravisNave]

ampster is right on.  Borrowing will provide your users exactly what they need and you can even use an options file to help limit the scope in which they are able to borrow.  Network licensing gives you all kinds of additional controls and liberties with your licenses.

[dgorsman]

Not to mention that licensing is such a light use of communications its a good candidate for VPN use when there is connectivity.  If the user is going to be offline for some time they can find a location to just connect, borrow a license, and sign off.

As far as I know, no current stand-alone licensing vendor uses a system to track deactivations along with activations.  Everything is always an on-activation, forward-only system.  The only time I've seen otherwise was the old pre-AutoDesk Navisworks Jetstream licenses, and heaven help you if that computer was re-imaged or had a meltdown prior to returning the license to the vendor.  Which is likely why such systems aren't in use.

[Martin_Langolf]

Hi Andre,

Thank you for your post.

I would agree with TravisNave and ampster, network licensing would greatly benefit you in managing admin images and licensing behaviour.

You may find additional informations to network licensing under the following link.

• http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?siteID=123112&id=18270103#network

Hope this can help.