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We are about to switch our QV 11 Server from using Machine Named CALs to User Named CALs so that we can take advantage of all the great new AJAX features. Unfortunately, I have been uunable to find any info around the Community on how to go about this. I am hoping that someone has experience with this operation and can offer some advice. I am currently running QVS 11 SR2 Build 11440. We have 53 named CALs (currently Machine Named) and 7 Session CALs.
I am currently planning to go about it this way (on a weekend to minimize CAL usage during the process:
Questions:
I apreciate any help that anyone can throw my way. I am particularly anxious to get this done, because managing Machine Named CALs is a royal pain, and we are in the middle of the third round of PC replacement in the department!
Thanks,
Scott Moon
Almost forgot about this one. The solution turned out to be simpler than I could have hoped for.
No quarantine, no waiting, no muss, no fuss. OK - I fussed about having to manually add 53 named users, but that was just me!
Hope this helps someone else,
Scott
Answering your questions, yes there is a better way, you could just remove all license information (get in contact with support for the steps to do that).
Yes, server will allow named cals even if there are some cals still assigned to machine names.
Almost forgot about this one. The solution turned out to be simpler than I could have hoped for.
No quarantine, no waiting, no muss, no fuss. OK - I fussed about having to manually add 53 named users, but that was just me!
Hope this helps someone else,
Scott