Managing "parallel use right" for older applications

heiko.berger asked a question.

December 19, 2018 at 8:00 AM

Dear community,

any idea or best practice, how applications are managed, that can be installed in different versions on the same PC, but just consuming one license for the highest version?

For example Visual Studio Professional has this option.

So a developer can install a version 2005, 2010 and 2015 - but it has to consume only one license for VS 2015.

I am thinking to change the metric to "user-based". But will this work across the versions?

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

/Heiko

Ines Schaefer (Flexera Software)
8 years ago
Hi Heiko, Thanks for your question. For Visual Studio Professional and your scenario, I would recommend the following settings: You should set the metric for the the other Visual Studio applications to users and set the tick for Allow simultanius mutiple version too. In the license settings you should activate the downgrade rights. I hope this helps, if not don't hesitate to reach out to us again. Best Regards, Ines
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- SamuelBaughan
  8 years ago
  I agree, this is the best solution. Ines, thanks this is a very clear walkthrough
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