Licensing and upgrade questions

We have an unlimited user Xserve 10.3 running as a web server. We only have 3 actual users, but many web clients.
For us to upgrade to Server 10.4: can we get by with the 10 user site license, instead of the unlimited one we have now?
And is there an upgrade, or do we need to buy the 10.4 server complete package, as seems to be the case?
Xserve Mac OS X (10.3.9)

1) Upgrades from 10.3 "unlimited" to 10.4 "10-client" aren't supported... so you'll definitely need to do a format and reinstall.
2) There's no upgrade pricing. The best way to get a license break is to get OS X Server maintenance -- it's the price of the upgrade ($999) and gives you all updates for the next 3 years. The catch is -- that you must be on the most recent version of the OS (i.e. 10.4 Server) to purchase it.
Your only option, thus, is to buy the complete package, as you noted.

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Activate the license and upgrade signature of AIS IPS on ASA

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Regards, CT

You can grab your license here:
http://cisco.com/go/license
and install it with these instructions:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/security/ips/7.0/configuration/guide/cli/cli_setup.html#wp1046739
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System copy and upgrade questions

dear gurus
i have one production box
R/3 version 4.6c
kernel 4.6D sp 1913
DB version Oracle 8.1.7.4.0
OS version Solaris 9
1st QUESTION
if i want to do system copy to new box
with
R/3 version 4.6c
kernel 4.6D sp 1913
DB version Oracle 8.1.7.4.0
OS version Solaris 10 (changed from solaris 9 to 10)
do i need to do homogenous system copy or heterogenous ?
is there any issues between 4.6c and solaris 10 ?
2nd question
if 1st question above is not possible, I want to do homogenous system copy with
R/3 version 4.6c
kernel 4.6D sp 1913
DB version Oracle 8.1.7.4.0
OS version Solaris 9
after that i will upgrade Oracle to 10 and SAP to ECC 6, is it possible to use ECC6 and Solaris 9 ? or do I need to upgrade to Solaris 10 ?
thanks

Hi AC thanks for your reply, anyway from other forum I got the answer already. please see quote below
but anyway i have another plan b that I need to ask.. just in case the new box is installed with Solaris 10
can you please let me know what is the best approach to do the upgrade, please if possible follow my approach in quote below
i have one production box
R/3 version 4.6c 64-bit
kernel 4.6D sp 1913
DB version Oracle 8.1.7.4.0 64-bit
OS version Solaris 9 64-bit
activities in new box
install Solaris 9 64-bit + patches
install Oracle 8.1.7.4.0 64-bit + patches
install R/3 version 4.6c 64-bit (with DB Load from dump from system copy, there is another option to move data file only)
update kernel to latest 4.6d before installing DB instance
upgrade Oracle 2 steps two Oracle 10 + patches
update kernel to 4.6dEX2 (in order to run with Oracle 10)
start SAP
upgrade to ECC6 sr2 + patches (sr2 because we dont want unicode, sr3 installation must be unicode)

Reusing Installation Discs and Upgrade Questions

Is it possible, or even legal, to use the Snow Leopard installation disc that came with my 15 inch Macbook Pro to install the OS onto my 20 inch iMac core 2 duo (its OS is Tiger)?
I have been wanting to update the OS on my desktop for a while and would rather not have to buy another disc when one came with my new laptop.
My other question is when I do go through with upgrading the OS on my desktop, will there be any type of data loss or stability issues?
I've never upgraded the OS on any of my computers before, having to replace a dying computer usually happens long before I need to upgrade the OS.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Echoing captfred WRT backups:
Get a bootable, external HD (preferably FireWire, since it's 40-50% faster than USB 2 and designed for data transfers), make a bootable backup/clone before updating/upgrading, and ensure that it's bootable and works like the original. That allows you to revert to the previous good state without having to reinstall or reset anything. See these for details:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106941
http://www.macmaps.com/upgradefaq.html
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/installswupdates.html
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/backuprecovery.html

Group license and upgrades

Can I purchase a group license upgrade to CS6 Master Suite for 7 people if each person independently own a different version of the CS5 and CS5.5 Suites?

No. Volume license upgrades require a previous volume license. And from your description it sounds like those licenses are owned by individuals, not the same company/ organization so it wouldn't work, anyway. Splitting a volume license is against the license agreement and depending o nthe licensing type chosen not even possible technically.
Mylenium

Transferring using AOL and Upgrade Question

I've done some research and saw that I will need to do an AOL to move to my wife's family plan but I had a question about upgrading. Right now I am eligible for the NE2 but my question is if I decide not to use it (because Droid 3 BOGO would be cheaper) would I still be eligible for an upgrade? Since she has an NE2 option right now too wouldn't it be smart for me to go on her plan and get two Droid 3's for 149.99? I just wouldn't want to move over to her line and lose my upgrade.
Also, since someone else is on my plan currently would they just get put on an individual account?
I'm sure this is somewhere but I wanted to ask because I could no find it! Thank you!

If you want to take advantage of the BOGO offer, you'll want to do the AoL first, as you've described.
When you do the AoL, you will lose your New Every 2 credit, but your line will still be eligible for an upgrade, the contract end date will not change.
I think the BOGO will definitely give you a better value than using your NE2 credit, I say go for it!

Acrobat Connect Pro Meeting Service Plans - licensing and pricing questions

Hello! I was hoping someone here might be able to help me with a few nitty-gritty pricing / licensing / functionality questions, in regard to the Adobe Connect Pro Meeting plans.
1) The pricing is $55/mth/host - if you have, e.g., 5 hosts, but make more than 5 recorded meetings available on-demand, will they all be accessible at any given moment?
2) 25 concurrent users is the limit; is that per recorded meeting? e.g., if 15 people access one recorded meeting and 15 people access another recorded meeting, all at the same time, would you be over your limit?
3) If you do happen to go over your concurrent user limit, what will happen for the 26th user? will they be denied access, or will you simply be charged an overage fee?
I'd appreciated any help or insight you have to offer!

I assume you got this pricing from the on-line website? I ask because when you buy it from Adobe enterprise sales and through our corporate channel then this is all different.
Answers:
1. Yes. On-Demand recordings don't apply against your license.
2. No. That 25 limnit is for concurrent live meetings. It's unlimited for on-demand recordings. That 25 limnit is completely set by the kind of license you are buying. if you purchased thru the software channel versus on-line then that number would be 100 not 25. On-Demand recordings have no limit.
3. If you exceed the concurrent license, then the 26th person trying to join will receive a pop-up message saying the room limit has been reached and they will not be able to join. Yes, denied access. No way to charge a fee for overage.

1 1/2 year old dv4t screen failure and upgrade question

Hi, I need some help troublshooting my HP dv4t notebook PC. First of all, let me mention that I am pretty good with computers as I have my CompTIA A+ and Network+ 2009 certifications and I work full time in a computer store as a repair technician but I need some help here diagnosing my problem.
My dv4t was probably one of the very first ones off the production line as a replacement for my old dv2500 which was given to me by a case manager about a year and a half or so ago. Within the past few weeks, I have had intermittent backlight issues and then the picture on the screen itself would not come up or would be extremely scrambled. I thought that it might have been the display cable so I went ahead and ordered a replacement and got it installed and now I have no video on the LCD at all. The webcam does work, as does the light on the HP logo on the back of the notebook lid. So I kind of have it narrowed down to either the motherboard or the LCD panel itself but I'm not sure which one it could be. Does anybody have any ideas of which one is causing my problems?
By the way, I was only given a 1 year warranty, and this is my 4th HP laptop and the first one that actually outlasted it's one year warranty so I'm a bit frustrated that I can't seem to get a computer with any kind of a decent build quality on it.
Also, is it possible to request an upgrade for a component while it is being repaired? I have the Lightscribe DVD burner currently and I'd like to step up to a blu-ray drive if it is possible.

Yes, I do get a picture with an external monitor. I talked to HP customer service and they seem to think it is the motherboard. Considering that I've already tried a new cable, I am thinking that it would be the motherboard. One thing that happened yesterday when I was diagnosing the computer at work was the new display cable was actually smoking where the cable would normally go from the display assembly to the chassis of the notebook which makes me think even more that its a motherboard.
While I could probably fix it myself for almost half the price of the $398 quote I got from HP, its almost worth the extra money just to not gamble on a $200 part and guess wrong. Money is tight for us right now and I'd hate to shell out for a motherboard and turn out that its actually a problem with the LCD panel itself.

ATI x1600 and Upgrade questions

I am thinking of investing in a macbook pro. I want to get the 2ghz model but now that there is no 1.83ghz model the 2ghz model get's the x1600 graphics card w/ 128MB instead of 256mb. I want to run Aperture and CS2. Will there be much difference without the extra 128mb of GDDR3 memory?
Also, I was thinking of buying two 1GB DDR2 sticks, should I get the Samsung sticks (Which are hefty in price compared to others) or OWC sticks or something else like memorytogo.com which has micron/elphida sticks... Does it really make a difference which sticks i get?
And lastly, should I upgrade to the 100gb 7200 HDD with apple or get a Hitachi travelstar through another online store? The only drawback from buying from an online store would be having to install everything myself but otherwie would it be worth it?
thanks in advance.

The extra graphics memory wont help at all for Adobe CS2, but it may for Aperture (since it relies on Apple's QuartzExtreme/CoreVideo/insertbuzzwordhere technologies which leverage the graphics chip), especially if you use it on a large external display. It'll may also help if you connect a second display and use 3D apps or CoreVideo/Quartz apps, since the VRAM is divided by two.
My advice however is to buy the machine with the 256MB VRAM since its not upgradable.
Buy quality RAM from a vendor that offers a good warranty. I've had good luck with Crucial and OWC in the past. My MBP 2.16GHz is running one Apple factory stick and one Crucial right now.
The Apple 7200 RPM hard drive is nice. Its definitely fast, but it does put out a bit more heat. Not hot by any stretch of the word, but the left palm rest over the HD does get warmer than the right. Only a bit, though.
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Fresh install and upgrade question..

Hi All
i might need to re install windows xp pro and format my drive
and i was
considering upgrading my studio 8 for cs3
if i did - would i need to install the studio versions first
to upgrade or
can i just install the cs3 versions and then register the
upgrade using the
serial numbers on the origonal boxs / cds?
thanks in advance
PS Anyone suggest a good hijackthis analysis express (read
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which might save
the need to format.
as ever
keen to learn..

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>> if i did - would i need to install the studio
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Lightroom 5 perpetual license and updates question

Hi,
I'm looking to buy a boxed version of Lightroom 5.
I wonder if this would permit me to future upgrade to latest version (e.g. as of now is 5.6 if I understand correctly).
Thanks.

If you have a perpetual license you do not want to get the product thru the Creative Cloud.
Lightroom - all versions
Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=113&platform=Windows
Mac
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=113&platform=Macintosh

Panther and Upgrades questions..

Hey people!
I'm soon buying a MacBook, I'm just waiting for Leopard to come out..I was wondering, will the upgrade to Leopard would increase the price of the MacBook?
Besides..Does anyone know, or has apple released any news, if the MacBook will be upgraded with Leopard If so..would that increase the price?
..I do not expect you guys to know for sure..But maybe you could tell me how the prices changed in the previous years with OS and hardware upgrades!
Thank You All!!
Regards
Valerio

Hey ma bad, i meant Leopard on the title!

Volume Licensing and KMS questions

I've been reading up on MS licensing all week and still slightly unsure of what we need.
We are revamping our infrastructure and need new licensing. We have 150 Win 7 Pro OEM (and some Win 8 Pro OEM licensed computers that have been downgraded to Win 7 Pro OEM) computers and are getting 4 physical Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard servers.
We would also like to add some virtual servers to those.
From what I've researched, we can just purchase a single
Microsoft®Windows®ServerStandard 2012R2 Sngl OLP 1License LevelC 2Proc
for $865 (used quick quote from MS website). This will give us a KMS host key to install on a 2012 server. We can then reimage Win 7 Pro and other 2012 servers and they will be able to activate with KMS.
Is all this correct? Or do I need to purchase separate Server 2012 and Windows 7/8 VLK's?
I read somewhere that this will also grant access to ISO files for imaging that already have the KMS client key or do not need a key at all? Or can we take any Windows image and apply the corresponding KMS client key to it and use that for imaging?

We are going to end up re-imaging all of our machines, current and future, anyway. I should just be able to use any ISO to create an image and implement the KMS client key there or during deployment, yes? Not gonna buy a client license just for an ISO that
I don't need.
Is software assurance recommended? I saw an advantages chart of it and noticed it included new product versions, license mobility, and virtual desktop allowance, but not much detail about what each of these means exactly. It seems to be something we'll probably
want though.
reimaging rights, can be a little tricky:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/about-licensing/briefs/reimaging.aspx
Here is an overview and some scenarios for customising/reimaging:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730914.aspx
Note that there are some limitations about customising if you *don't* have a VL agreement..
SA benefits:
http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/software-assurance/by-product.aspx#tab=2
There are many benefits to SA, but the value of each benefit varies according to your organisation.
It's also worth noting that when you purchase a product (e.g. new computers with OEM Windows license), within 90 days or purchase you can enrol them in SA, and I think that might be less expensive that if you attach SA later on. But you'd want to consider
that you'll get your value from doing that, compared to some other agreement approach. There are lots of ways to bundle things up to get discounts, many different offerings across different licensing programmes.
Don
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Instalation and upgrade questions.

My daughter has photoshop cs4 via one of the suites (design premium).
It was originally installed on her old computer as a 32 bit version.
She now has a 64 bit machine. I drive imaged the old drive to the new machine and did all the hardware drivers, and it is working perfectly.
It is vista home premium.
How can she upgrade to the 64 bit version of photoshop without breaking her installation or loosing any of her work?
If I upgrade her OS to windows 7 Pro (x64), will that be a problem?
I have downloaded the master suite trial instalation files onto my drive. My goal is to create an installation dvd set and use it to install trial versions of the various products on a couple of different machines. The entire folder structure is over 8 gig, So i need two DVDs.
How do i split the resulting un compressed master suite installation folders to two dvds so that it functions as an install dvd?
If my son ends up buying just one product (say dreamweaver), Can he unlock the copy of dreamweaver that was installed via the master suite install dvd? or does he have to uninstall the master suite copy and re-install the dreamweaver cs4 download?
If the trial expires, can he unlock it at some point later if he purchases a key?
Does each product within the master suite have its own trial expiration date based on when that particular product was installed? or once you install one product from the master suite install dvd, the date is set for all products?
Thanks
Jerry C

How can she upgrade to the 64 bit version of photoshop without breaking her installation or loosing any of her work?
You can't. This can only be done wit ha proper install after the old stuff has been uninstalled. You won't lose any work, the installers only care for their own files, not user-generated data.
If I upgrade her OS to windows 7 Pro (x64), will that be a problem?
Just to be on the safe side, always deactivate, then re-activate after the update.
How do i split the resulting un compressed master suite installation folders to two dvds so that it functions as an install dvd?
You cannot. Installer spanning only works if you downloaded or bought the proper DVD version that is already pre-configured into two separate packages. Use an external hard drive or memory stick to transport the files instead.
Can he unlock the copy of dreamweaver that was installed via the master suite install dvd?
No. Suites ands standalone products have completely different serials and since the DW will be tied to the suite install, a standalone serial won't work.
If the trial expires, can he unlock it at some point later if he purchases a key?
Yes, that's the plan.
Does each product within the master suite have its own trial expiration date based on when that particular product was installed?
No, the suite is timebombed as a whole, which again relates to how it is supposed to handle serialization with only one number.
Mylenium

Installation and upgrade questions.

I posted this in Photoshop and got no response so i am re-posting it here. (thanks)
My daughter has photoshop cs4 via one of the suites (design premium).
It was originally installed on her old computer as a 32 bit version.
She now has a 64 bit machine. I drive imaged the old drive to the new machine and did all the hardware drivers, and it is working perfectly.
It is vista home premium.
How can she upgrade to the 64 bit version of photoshop without breaking her installation or loosing any of her work?
If I upgrade her OS to windows 7 Pro (x64), will that be a problem?
I have downloaded the master suite trial instalation files onto my drive. My goal is to create an installation dvd set and use it to install trial versions of the various products on a couple of different machines. The entire folder structure is over 8 gig, So i need two DVDs.
How do i split the resulting un compressed master suite installation folders to two dvds so that it functions as an install dvd?
If my son ends up buying just one product (say dreamweaver), Can he unlock the copy of dreamweaver that was installed via the master suite install dvd? or does he have to uninstall the master suite copy and re-install the dreamweaver cs4 download?
If the trial expires, can he unlock it at some point later if he purchases a key?
Does each product within the master suite have its own trial expiration date based on when that particular product was installed? or once you install one product from the master suite install dvd, the date is set for all products?
Thanks
Jerry C

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My daughter has photoshop cs4 via one of the suites (design premium).
It was originally installed on her old computer as a 32 bit version.
She now has a 64 bit machine. I drive imaged the old drive to the new machine and did all the hardware drivers, and it is working perfectly.
It is vista home premium.
How can she upgrade to the 64 bit version of photoshop without breaking her installation or loosing any of her work?
If I upgrade her OS to windows 7 Pro (x64), will that be a problem?
Cannot answer you definitely about installing 64 bit Photoshop but I suggest inserting the DVD and installing Photoshop only. The DVD should pick up that you're on a 64 bit OS and offer you 64 bit Photoshop.
I suggest clean installing Windows 7, rather than upgrade installing. That would mean reinstalling all software and drivers but it's the most reliable method in my experience.
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I have downloaded the master suite trial instalation files onto my drive. My goal is to create an installation dvd set and use it to install trial versions of the various products on a couple of different machines. The entire folder structure is over 8 gig, So i need two DVDs.
How do i split the resulting un compressed master suite installation folders to two dvds so that it functions as an install dvd?
If my son ends up buying just one product (say dreamweaver), Can he unlock the copy of dreamweaver that was installed via the master suite install dvd? or does he have to uninstall the master suite copy and re-install the dreamweaver cs4 download?
If the trial expires, can he unlock it at some point later if he purchases a key?
Does each product within the master suite have its own trial expiration date based on when that particular product was installed? or once you install one product from the master suite install dvd, the date is set for all products?
Thanks
Jerry C
I suspect you'll struggle to split Suites to install individual products on various machines (if that's what you mean). Suites are far more than a simple collection of the individual software titles. They're tightly integrated, must be installed on the same machine together and are all tied to a single suite serial number which is unrelated to the individual product serial numbers. I believe the downloaded Suite file has to be installed as one.
I don't know of a way to burn the downloaded file across 2 DVDs.
If your son only purchases Dreamweaver, he'll have to uninstall the Master Suite and re-install the DW download.
If the trial expires, it'll keep showing a Trial has expired screen and you cannot go further. Once you enter a valid serial number, it'll launch normally.
My understanding of the Suites is that all products are integrated. Once the trial version of a single product in the suite is launched, my understanding is that the clock starts ticking for all products in the suite. That said, I have not tried launching individual products in the Trial versions more than 30 days apart.

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