Cancelled license files are still in use

FlorencePorter

I am the license administrator for my organization.  On the Licensing, Authorizations, and Activity reports, we have licenses that were cancelled, but are still being used.  Is there a process of reinstating these license to show that they are still in use?

JoshuaBixby

"They," the licenses, are not cancelled.  What is cancelled is the license file.  Once a license file is cancelled, it won't work to authorize any additional licenses, but that is because the license file itself has been cancelled and not because the licenses have been deauthorized or obsoleted. 

Personally, I liked it better when they were called Provisioning files because that is exactly what they are, and changing the name to Licensing files leads to confusion, especially for people newer to Esri licensing in My Esri.

If you are interested in actual license information, I suggest looking at the Authorizations or Authorizations Activity reports because those contain information on licenses.