Forum Discussion
Activations and Temporary installs
Hello.
I work for a company as a courseware developer. We have purchased a set of licenses for Articulate 360 and are in the process of evaluating whether it is the correct software for our team. What I am concerned about is the licensing activations.
We use a cloud provider to provide our lab environments and then RDP into those environments. This means that I need to install Articulate onto the remote system to properly capture the mouse clicks and textual inputs.
When I'm done with a set of labs, I pull the capture files over the network to my local system. After I ensure the captures are good, I delete the virtual lab environment and edit on my local install (which remains consistent)
When the next project comes along, I deploy a new lab environment for the next development. Install and log into Articulate and capture labs.
Rinse, repeat.
The articulate license calls out that we are allowed 2 PC installation activations. I'm guessing that after as certain period of time, my remote installation is going to refuse to activate after I install it.
My question is, when this happens how to I deactivate the activations on lab systems that have been deleted.
Another question, is there a way to deactivate my install before I delete my remote lab environment? I could avoid this problem completely.
Many thanks.
And actually, a third question.
If I were to install articulate on a Virtual system that I then copied and reused with each project, would that system remain active. Each copy of the VM will have some slight differences, like a MAC address change, and I read somewhere that can cause a problem.
Hi, Jerry.
I see you connected with Renato, one of our support engineers, through a case. Great call!
Please reach out through the case if you have additional questions.
I did. He explained that the 360 license tracks licensing through logins which is perfect for our needs.
Thanks, Jerry
