Crystal Enterprise 8.5 - Processor Restrictions?

Post Author: qstone
CA Forum: Upgrading and Licensing
Hi, I currently have CR8.5 Developer installed on a single processor server that has had a good run, but needs replacing. We have a new dual processor server that I'm trying to move our application over to.
Crystal Reports installs fine, but when I try to install Crystal Enterprise, the Enterprise key code is tagged as invalid.
I saw in another post that a later version of Crystal Enterprise has a processor limitation. If I try the Key Code in the web registration page, it comes up invalid there, too, which makes me wonder "What the heck?"
Does anyone know if 8.5 Enterprise has the same processor limitations built into the key code, and that is what is causing my problem? Any other suggestions?
Thanks!

Hi Tim,
Thanks for the reply.
I searched the forum and found the link to [url|http://devlibrary.businessobjects.com/BusinessObjectsXIR2SP2/en/en/BOE_SDK/boesdk_java_dg_doc/doc/boesdk_java_dg/URLreporting_new.html] which specifies the process to use URL Reporting for Crystal Reports . But to implement this we have to change the architecture of our existing application as presently we are directly accessing the report in URL to run the report. I was not able to found any solution that implements this architecture.
Does Business Object Enterprise 11.5 still supports this architecture?
If we use the architecture specified in the above URL for URL Reporting for Crystal Reports then how we can migrate all our reports to BOE 11.5? We have to use the Publish Wizard for that, to get the ids for our reports?
There was a parameter APSTOKEN how can we get a token. Can it be a static token that can be used by all the users to access the reports?
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