Can a commuter (and a remote commuter) license be used on virtual and Windows Server environments?

  • KM03088447
  • 06-Feb-2018
  • 16-Jan-2020

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Summary

What is the support for commuter licenses in virtual/server enviroments?

Question

 Customer cannot check out and use a commuter (or commuter remote) license in virtual nor Windows Servers environments. Commuter license option appears greyed out.

Answer

Customer cannot check out and use a commuter (or commuter remote) license to use in virtual nor Windows Servers environments. When trying to check out/check in the license, license wizard will show up the commuter license options as "greyed out":

IMPORTANT:

This limitation applies for UFT 14.02 and prior versions. Starting from UFT 14.03, users should be able to use Commuter Licenses on Windows Server Environments.

This is a limitation already documented in below KM article:

What are the differences between commuter and remote commuter licenses?

https://mysupport.microfocus.com/group/softwaresupport/search-result/-/facetsearch/document/KM1383092

There is an exsitign ER for this specific limitation and its inplementation will considered for future versions:

Add support for Commuter license on Server OS.

https://mysupport.microfocus.com/group/softwaresupport/search-result/-/facetsearch/document/LID/QCCR1J86910

 

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