Wiki Page: Cannot pick SQL Express during SELECTserver Installation
Applies To Product(s): SELECTserver Version(s): 09.00.00.xx Environment: N\A Area: Installation / Configuration Subarea: SQL Installation Original Author: James White, Bentley...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Start Mstn with a script to check your own local database
Hi Robert, Since Bentley does not want to allow capping, our IT department is looking to building our own logging/ sniffing system to prevent overuseage and unexpected invoices :(. I will let you know...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Start Mstn with a script to check your own local database
Hi, Right now we are not having overage issues, so I have not been personally looking into this. (We lost an employee.) Thanks for all the responses. --Robert
View ArticleWiki Page: Why do RAM Structural System modules open in trial mode?
Applies To Product(s): RAM Structural System (+ AutoPIPE, SACS 5.6, Maxsurf 20, Multiframe 17) Version(s): 14.06.00.00, and greater Environment: N/A Area: Licensing Subarea:...
View ArticleForum Post: Bentley Licensing SCAM - beware
So, It appears to me that Bentley has changed it's licensing system from helpful to a scam. About 3 months ago I was contacted by an "account representative" that told me that I had several occasions...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Bentley Licensing SCAM - beware
We let Bentley host our licenses, so it's their own reporting feature that they claim is showing a forth hit, and I will say this again......4 days in 3 months. The Account rep stated which computers...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Licensing / overuse or not
I have just posted a similar topic.....If they think I'm paying for another license because thier reporting system says I somehow used 4 days over the 3 licenses I have purchased, they're fooling...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Bentley Licensing SCAM - beware
gatkins94 Thank you Tyler, I couldn't get the account rep to provide me with his supervisors information and felt this may be the next step. I have been a Microstation user for over 30 years, and I...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Bentley Licensing SCAM - beware
gatkins94 and was sent a spreadsheet that showed 4 days over the past 3 months that there were 4 uses of Microstation.....the impending invoice is $5000. I remembered that by Bentley Policy, it will...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Bentley Licensing SCAM - beware
according to the account rep....that has changed. I have a spreadsheet that shows it....AND...we don't have but THREE users here, it's almost got to be a glitch in the server licensing that is...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Bentley Licensing SCAM - beware
Although Microstation uses machine based licensing and any user can work on local computer without needing additional license for each keep in mind that if using Windows Remote desktop it actually...
View ArticleComment on How do I restrict license usage to checkouts only?
One more question from users. Can you confirm that usage logs use always local time and not server time? Also what happens if doing check-in before checkout expiration, does it uses server time or...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Bentley Licensing SCAM - beware
Oto....that's EXACTLY what the idiot Account rep should have called and talked to me about when I asked him a few months ago if this is an issue. He chose to send me a link that I could study on how...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Licensing / overuse or not
Over usage is killing us at the moment. Some days (not including weekends) we use only half or less of our licences for a product. but others days we have gone over. So we get hit with over usage. It...
View ArticleForum Post: Usage logs&local time
Follow up on this proposed workflow to limit overusage - http://communities.bentley.com/products/licensing/w/licensing__wiki/13916.how-do-i-restrict-license-usage-to-checkouts-only.aspx Does usage...
View ArticleForum Post: Run products in non-production mode
Tools Run products in non-production mode Opens a dialog in which you can select the products that you want to run in non-production mode. For what is this option under License Management?
View ArticleForum Post: Select server moved - config multiple clients?
Our local select server was on server "A". We have set up a new server "B" because "A" will be decommissioned. We realize that we can go to each client machine and manually run the Product Activation...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Select server moved - config multiple clients?
There certainly is! Please refer to the following news article which describes how to configure license settings via Windows group policy or a command-line licensing utility included with Bentley...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Usage logs&local time
Trust licensing usage data is recorded locally using the system clock and a GMT offset to account for time zone differences. However, a license checkout or check-in is handled on the server end since...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Select server moved - config multiple clients?
Thank you for the quick reply. Got it working!
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