How will user licensing work with more than 1 user logging in on the account

[Anonymous]

Currently we have a Multi user-subscription which will expire in 2022. Based on the AutoDesk annoucement we will  need to switch to standard subscriptions linked to a user account.

For the majority of the people in the company this works fine, but there is one group which is confusing.

Those are students that work part time at the company. These people do not have their own account as they share the "Student" account. This is convenient as different students come and go, and you want them all to have the same rights.

Currently the students are either using 1 or 2 multi-licenses on a single day. On the current subscription this works perfectly as the network license sees two licenses being used by the same account. What is your advise when switching to standard subscription? Would it possible to assign 2 standard subscriptions to one account?

[AllenJessup]

I think the theory is that each student will have to have an Autodesk account. Then you'll have to reassign a license from student to student. That takes a little time but isn't that difficult. I have made suggestions to make it easier.

Is by standard subscription you mean a subscription to different products. Yes. You have to assign each product individually. So one user may have multiple products assigned.

[rkmcswain]

@Anonymous wrote:

Currently the students are either using 1 or 2 multi-licenses on a single day. On the current subscription this works perfectly as the network license sees two licenses being used by the same account. What is your advise when switching to standard subscription?

What Autodesk has done is taken away your seamless ability for multiple users to share the same software license at different times.

Your options are to rent one software license for each user, or have a human swap around the software assignments as needed. This of course is something the network license manager did at no cost and virtually without error for years.

So for example, if you have 4 licenses and 12 users. When you convert the network licenses to named user licenses, you should get the 2:1 deal, which means you'll end up with 8 licenses and 12 users. So you can either rent 4 more annual licenses and assign them out on a 1:1 ratio, or a human on your staff will have to log into the portal each time you want to reassign/shuffle around those 8 licenses to the 8 users who need them at that moment.