Run sequence with base deployment engine

I have a basic Teststand 4.2.1 sequence file that takes some data measuremts and records the results to a file. This sequence runs fine onthe development system and now I want to deploy this to some other deployment workstations. I can run the deployment utiility and create an installation package. The deployment installes on the deployment workstations and I can configure the teststand base deployment engine license.
When I try to run my deployed sequence file, it always tries to run the full development version of teststand. Since only the deployment version is licensed, I get stuck at prompt for the temporary 7 day evaluation. If I remove the teststand development evaluation licence, the sequect fails to run saying there is no license available.
How do I set my sequence to run under the base deployment engine license. I don't have any fancy custom interfaces. I just want the default teststand interface to run the sequence file in read only, no editing mode.

Hi glsimpson,
You won't be able to use TestStand Sequence Editor to run your sequences. You can use one of our pre-built UIs that installs with TestStand. Please see Chapter 14 of the TestStand reference manual. This has several examples of Deploying TestStand system. Also you can take a look here for more information on TestStand licensing.
Cheers,

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using System.Data;
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Hi Greg,
Thanks for the detailed explanation. Let me start off by describing our current scenario.
We deploy our application with its own set of Oracle driver files (ODP.NET). The driver files were picked from Xcopy deployment package ODAC 11.2 Release 4 (11.2.0.3.0). This works fine for users (50% of our 1000+ user base) who do not have any other installation of Oracle drivers. For the rest of the users who may have another version of ODP.NET (ODAC 11.2 Release 5 (11.2.0.3.20)), installed via Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) we have a problem.
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It is true that there are multiple versions of OraOps11w of differing patch levels that all show the same version number.+ Any particular reason to do this? How do you keep track of which fixes are present in which file if the version number never changes?
Regards,
Ram

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