3DS Max Education Network License Query

hellyercollege — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 10:52:56 GMT

I logged a job with Autodesk about this query, and after some emails back and forth to explain the situation, I thought I was getting somewhere with the person from the Installation & Licensing department, but all of a sudden they apparently can’t help me any more and told me to ask here.

I can’t see how anybody here can answer this conclusively, without being in an authoritative position, but here goes…

My school is one of 200+ other public schools in the same state that are all on the same computer network. We share the same domain and, indeed, an Autodesk Licensing server.

With a network this large comes central management, of course, and some of the people on those teams have concerns about the way our Autodesk licensing is being shared.

At this point in time, each school that needs one, has a seperate Autodesk account in which they set up their network licenses and packages.

But, of course, only one network license of 3000 concurrent seats for each major version of a program at a time can be imported into the combined license server file.

Basically, whichever schools 3DS Max license is the newest gets used by the workstations, which means all the schools will share the one 3000 seat license that one school created.

This works fine, and there are plenty of seats, but does this violate any license policies?

All these schools are governed by one overarching, centralised department of education, they all share the same Australian business number and, as I said, they’re all on the same computer network and domain.

Does this mean that, for all intents and purposes the schools are considered one organisation and should be able to share a single pool of licenses?
Would this indeed mean that one account could be used to manage this instead of each school having one?

Or does having multiple physical addresses locations mean that each school is considered separate, and should have its own pool of licenses?

if anyone can provide me with an answer, or a link to documentation that conclusively answers this (i.e. NOT open to interpretation) I’d really appreciate it.

Going back to each school running it’s own license server would not be ideal.

Re: 3DS Max Education Network License Query

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 13:57:10 GMT

i would say each school would need their own Autodesk Account & license

all the schools would need their own license server

Re: 3DS Max Education Network License Query

gabe.anderson — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:51:50 GMT

Hi @hellyercollege,

Thanks for sharing your situation. It sounds like a fairly unique scenario.

Could you please direct message me with your contact info? We'd like to learn more.

Regards,

Gabe

Re: 3DS Max Education Network License Query

hellyercollege — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 10:50:33 GMT

Message sent 🙂

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