Best Practice for Multiple Users and Single-Use License

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11-29-2021 06:11 AM
PatrickMcKinney99
Occasional Contributor

My organization is considering converting our concurrent-use licenses to single-use licenses.  However, we're not sure how we will deal with our desktop extensions (i.e. spatial analyst).  The decision is being made to free-up more ArcGIS Online users, as we will get 3 single-use licenses for each concurrent license.  

Does anyone have ideas for how to approach this?  Two we have are 1) keep a few concurrent desktop licenses and keep the extensions as concurrent licenses; 2) stand-up a shared workstation that has the single-use desktop and extension licenses.

Thanks for any insights!

--- Patrick

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JoshuaBixby
MVP Esteemed Contributor

Why are you moving away from Concurrent-Use to Single-Use licensing?  Knowing that might help inform people's feedback.

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PatrickMcKinney99
Occasional Contributor

The decision is being made to free-up more ArcGIS Online users, as we will get 3 single-use licenses for each concurrent license.  

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curtvprice
MVP Esteemed Contributor

Is this ArcMap? Sounds to me like a good time to migrate to Pro so you can assign extension licenses more flexibly from named users!

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PatrickMcKinney99
Occasional Contributor

We will providing our users with both ArcMap and ArcPro early next year.  Do you have links to any docs related to assigning extra licenses you referenced?  I haven't heard about that, and it may solve our problem. Thanks!

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curtvprice
MVP Esteemed Contributor
ArcPro licenses are best assigned from named users unless you want to share a limited number of extension licenses among users, if that is the case I recommend sticking with concurrent for your Pro licenses. I don’t know anything about the extra licenses you are talking about
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