License Manager options file

[DavidPike]

Hypothetically could an options file switch a user to a standard/basic concurrent license even though they are requesting an advanced license (as per packaged configuration for an organisation)?

My feeling is that whatever you have set in ArcGIS Administrator is what you get, and if the exact license level isn't there in the LM, then ArcMap won't load.

Context - trying to avoid separate software packages with only a single difference being the license config in ArcGIS Administration.  Same for Citrix and containers.

Cheers

[AmnoyAm]

The option file can be used to reserve or exclude users from a particular license.  It does not switch license level as you described.  Whatever is set in the ArcGIS Administrator is what ArcMap/ArcCatalog is going to use unless there is an environment variable setting.  ArcMap/ArcCatalog will check to see if there is an environment variable set before checking the ArcGIS Administrator.  Refer to the document below on how to change a license level through the system's environment variable.  This is especially useful for ArcGIS Desktop in a terminal server such as Citrix.  

https://desktop.arcgis.com/en/license-manager/10.4/using-the-license-manager-with-wts-critix.htm