Wiki Page: Licensing and Product Activation
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View ArticleForum Post: Announcing Merging of Licensing, Cloud and Web Services Communities
The Licensing and Activation Community will soon be merging into the Cloud and Web Services Community , forming "Licensing, Cloud and Web Services". There will be one merged community covering both...
View ArticleFile: Enable TLS 1.2
Starting in May 2020, the hosted SELECTserver (i.e. selectserver.bentley.com) no longer accepts encrypted connections using TLS 1.0 or 1.1. Only TLS 1.2 is honored. The change is affecting some users,...
View ArticleFile: Restart SES Licensing Components
A restart of the CONNECTION Client and the underlying Bentley Licensing Service can serve as a useful troubleshooting measure, especially if proxy settings are being updated. This batch closes and...
View ArticleFile: Batch file to restart licensing components
This batch file quits and restarts both the Bentley Licensing Service and CONNECTION Client, a procedure that can be useful during troubleshooting since it reloads the licensing components used by...
View ArticleFile: PowerShell script to expire a license
ExpireLicense [-ProductID [-FeatureString ] [-UseHKLM] ] This PowerShell script changes the activation status of a specified product license (and feature string if applicable) to Expired. If run with...
View ArticleFile: PowerShell script to consolidate duplicate usage entries in Application...
This PowerShell script takes an Application Usage By Hour report and consolidates duplicate usage entries. It then performs a summation of usage for each machine and user pair by product and appends a...
View ArticleFile: Fix for "exceeds content request length" error
By default, SELECTserver is configured to accept manual response files up to 7.93 MB in size. This limit has been sufficient for many years, but as the product definitions included in this file has...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Announcing Merging of Licensing, Cloud and Web Services...
The merge has been completed. For information and questions about licensing, please navigate to: Licensing, Cloud and Web Services Community
View ArticleFile: Script to update Manual Log Posting URL
The Transmit Usage Logs page on the SELECTserver administration site provides a link to the SELECTserver Log Posting page, but this setting can become outdated if the SELECTserver is unable to...
View ArticleFile: Batch file to clear license settings for all user profiles
License settings can be applied to the All Users profile and used as a template on all user profiles that do not have any. However, any license settings stored in the user profile will always take...
View ArticleFile: Batch file to elevate license settings to All Users
Version 9.2 and later of the License Management Tool provides the ability to copy license settings stored in the user profile to the All Users profile via the Elevate to All Users button in the Options...
View ArticleFile: Batch file to expire a license
Bentley products will run for at least seven days in a trial or offline mode. During this time, the product can be utilized and usage can be generated. If the product fails to activate before the trial...
View ArticleFile: PowerShell script to determine whether product usage is billable under...
This PowerShell script takes a Monthly Usage By User report saved as a CSV file and appends an ID column containing the four-digit product ID number, providing values that are tolerant of product name...
View ArticleFile: SELECTserver Help files for SS 09.01.00.31
SELECTserver 09.01.00.31 omitted the online help files, causing a 404 error if Help -> Index is selected. To fix the problem, expand the zip archive, and save the resulting Help folder in the...
View ArticleFile: PowerShell script to generate Monthly Usage By Site in CSV
This PowerShell script takes a Daily Peak Usage report and calculates monthly peaks per site and per product. It is provided as a workaround for the Monthly Peak Usage By Site report which does not...
View ArticleFile: Batch file to manually remove checked out licenses from client machine
License checkouts which fail to display properly in the License Management Tool are commonly caused by registry issues. The following batch file will manually remove any checked out licenses from...
View ArticleFile: PowerShell script to display license settings for all profiles on a...
This PowerShell script queries every user profile it can access for SELECTserver license settings. Any user profiles that cannot be loaded or that contain no license settings are silently skipped....
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