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here is a guide: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Installation-Licensing/Combining-License-Files-for-Subscription-and-No...
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were they all generated on the same day?
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are your products on subscription?
if they are your 2012 licenses are automatically upgraded to 2013
so you don't need to generate 2012 license fiels because when you generate your 2013 license it will have 2012, 2011, 2010 autocad as a package statement
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Darren is right. You do not combine license files of upgraded Subscription files. You simply replace them. The backwards compatibility is built into the Subscription license for three versions back.
Thanks for the replies. Yes, I do have a subscription for the 4 seats (actually 1 plus 3) so I generated 2 LIC files for the 2013 disks I got.
To one of the other responders, yes I generated all the LIC files on the same day.
I guess I was trying to complicate things. I first thought that I could run 4 copies of 2012 and another 4 for 2013 but you guys are just too smart. So I guess I can give our IT folks who run the server, the LIC files from the 2013 install and they can restart the server.
From what I now understand, my users who have installed ACAD 2013 can run it along with the users who are still on the 2012 deployment, and I can have 4 on at one time split between both versions.
Ver 2012 was our first time with NLM so all thisis new to us.
so yes
you can have 2 running 2013 and 2 running 2012 or 1 runnning 2013 and 3 running 2012 or vise vera
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or have 4 running 2013 or 4 running 2012
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the bottom line is you own autocad 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 for a total of 4 licenses
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the lastest is 11.10
so yes i would upgrade it
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I'm going to try the old one first to see if the easy way works. If it won't, we have to go through a 2 week approval process to upgrade any server applications.
That's a bit extreme. The NLM is a network service, not a user app. You can stop the service and replace the four .exe files and restart the service without even interrupting the network licensing. The real problem is with your strict company policies. I don't usually get on a soap box, but I work in IT and there's no way I could work in that kind of environment.
Edit: I lied. I get on a soap box all the time.
Yes, we are very conservative. I'm an Engineer and use ACAD to draw up parts and assemblies I design. We are a public utility and the IT guy says it is a SOX requirement for the change management. I'm guessing it stands for Sarbaines-Oxley which did some rules about ordering and approving things. After the blackout in the North-East a few years ago, the politicians got very serious about regulations and fines.
A friend at BPA has it much worse. They are not allowed to bring in a USB thumb drive and plug it into a government PC on their network.
Yeah, I hear ya. Sarbanes Oxley is ruining business in America. I predict it won't last.
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