I’m going to quickly run through the places it can be kept, and then let you know my favorite way to tell a PC where to find a license server and why. Once you know where to look, it’s not bad, but there are a couple of places that old server name could be stored. That server name gets baked into some files on the PC, and there isn’t always a straightforward way to point to the new server.

And if you tell it to use a network license, you then have to tell the software what the computer name or IP address of the license server is.

Typically when you install an application like Revit or AutoCAD, you tell the software what kind of license it uses. But a question often comes up: how do the end user PCs find the new license server now? Where a PC Keeps Its License Server Information Reinstalling the license software on a new server is about just as easy as it was on the first server. A small application sits on a server and end users PCs point to that license server to “check out” licenses as they need them.īut, as we all know, sometimes a server dies or it’s time to upgrade it. It’s pretty painless to set up, easy to leverage and can be a smart move for groups of users. Many large organizations use Network Licensing to manage their pools of software licenses.

Autocad license manager