How to: mass deploy TC to 100 devices ; and licenses for 50 users?

[daviddgz]

Hello, I want to deploy TC on around 100 devices, 50 named users.

I haven't bought the licenses yet but I do have my own personal license, which I opened and it seems to be a binary file - I don't know why I was expecting a plain text file with a serial key or something... not that is relevant.

Anyway, I have a few questions I hope you can answer:

- If I buy 50 licenses, would I receive one license key or 50 keys?
- what would be the best strategy to mass deploy this automatically so the user doesn't need to install their license manually? I know the installer allows you to install the license with a flag where you specify the file, the challenge here is how to create a deployer that installs a different key for every PC. With other deployers I have "assigned" in my script one serial per PC, meaning PC05 = serial xxxx-xxxx-xxxx. I guess I could create a similar script and depending on the PC number different keys would be installed, but if I can avoid that it would be great .

Any thoughts would be much appreciated! Thanks

[Dalai]

As far as I know it works like this:
If you buy licenses for a single entity (e.g. a company) you'll receive a single key file that covers all licenses. The TC About window will tell you how many licenses this key file covers; for a single license it says "Single user licence".

If you need to stock up on licenses some time in the future you'll get a new key file that covers the new amount of licenses.

[daviddgz]

As far as I know it works like this:
If you buy licenses for a single entity (e.g. a company) you'll receive a single key file that covers all licenses. The TC About window will tell you how many licenses this key file covers; for a single license it says "Single user licence".

If you need to stock up on licenses some time in the future you'll get a new key file that covers the new amount of licenses.

That is great! this way I can use a single deployer for the whole company. I'm surprised Ghisler trusts everyone to buy the right amount of licenses to be honest and I wouldn't mind a more intrusive licensing method if that helps development.

[Dalai]

Well, companies and similar large environments (like government agencies) usually tend to make sure they're correctly licensing the software they use to avoid getting into trouble and having to pay fines. Some companies make it really easy to have too few licenses and the costs when getting caught can get rather ridiculous (Oracle anyone?).

[ghisler(Author)]

There is also no license control because the Total Commander license allows one user to run Total Commander on multiple computers at the same time (e.g. desktop, notebook, virtual machines), and it only counts as one user.

It's also possible to store the key in the registry.
There are two scripts available in the forum, one to create a .reg file to import the key on multiple computers, and one to import the .key file directly into the registry:
http://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?t=27098

Setting keypath=$ is no longer necessary.

[white]

There are two scripts available in the forum, one to create a .reg file to import the key on multiple computers, and one to import the .key file directly into the registry:

And a batch file TC key.cmd to copy a Total Commander license to/from the Windows registry. Have you ever tried it?