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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/f/forum/119148/changes-to-the-licensing-increment</link><description>I am assisting another firm with their licensing setup. They are telling me that the licensing increment of 1 hour is being revised to 10 minutes.Can I get a definitive statement on this from Bentley. 
 Is the one hour increment still in effect or has</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/378487?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 08:01:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:85efd136-d141-4c64-bae5-280e58be9633</guid><dc:creator>Bigean</dc:creator><description>Hey Daniel,&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I changed my posts with the conclusions after your corrections. The mechanism is still on the fair side. no real overlap = no count as &amp;quot;concurrent&amp;quot;. Overlap up to 9 minutes can result as &amp;quot;no concurrent use&amp;quot; dependent on the situation. Overlap of 10 minutes or more are 100% concurrent.&lt;br /&gt;
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Only with Bentley hosted license server, not with all old products. First overusage counts for the quarter invoice now.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/378441?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 00:07:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:02d42d52-b04c-4f47-b214-6a0f69a6b9be</guid><dc:creator>DanielB</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I have to amend what I said here because it, also, wasn&amp;#39;t entirely accurate. &amp;nbsp;Counting does not start with the first full 10-minute window as I said previously. &amp;nbsp;Rather, counting will start with the second 10-minute window as long as the total duration of usage is greater than 10 minutes.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;To state more explicitly what we&amp;#39;re doing:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We will look to see if the total duration is &amp;gt;10 minutes.&amp;nbsp;&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If it&amp;#39;s not, we drop that record from the peak calculations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;If it is greater than 10 minutes, we move on to the next step&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;We will then&amp;nbsp;round the start time up to the beginning of the next 10-minute window and start counting the peak usage&amp;nbsp;from that time.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Take the example from above to illustrate:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin-left:30px;"&gt;PC F: Usage from 7:22 - 7:39&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This usage is &amp;gt;10 minutes, so it will count for some usage.&amp;nbsp; The 7:20-7:30 window is not full, so 7:22 is rounded up to 7:30 leaving a usage record of 7:30-7:39.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;For the purpose of counting&amp;nbsp;peak usages in a window,&amp;nbsp;we&amp;#39;re left with 1 usage counted in the 7:30-7:40 window.&amp;nbsp; So, even though no 10-minute window was full, we do count usage in one of the windows because the total usage duration was greater than 10 minutes.&amp;nbsp; We will not count it as usages in 2 windows, though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/376459?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2016 07:28:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5f7a86f7-0d0a-475f-ac35-18097967092c</guid><dc:creator>Bigean</dc:creator><description>Very valuable and rich information. Thanks, Jeremy. &lt;br /&gt;
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I think this can be included into the licensing WIKI without change.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/376372?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 16:58:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d7342954-fb10-4bfa-8027-c03e3b599a07</guid><dc:creator>Jeremy Hoesly</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;The following diagram&amp;nbsp;posted on Bentley Communities shows the &lt;a href="/products/licensing/m/licensing_gallery/270398" target="_blank"&gt;information transmitted to the hosted server&lt;/a&gt;. It receives the same data that client machines currently send to your deployed SELECTserver. No information is hashed since the hosted server needs the user and machine names to generate usage reports just like your deployed server.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By default, client machines send usage information to the license server using the HTTP protocol which is not encrypted since deployed servers rarely are configured with an SSL certificate. However, the hosted server has one using 256-bit SHA-2&amp;nbsp;RSA encryption. So I highly recommend configuring clients to enable the &amp;quot;Use HTTPS (SSL)&amp;quot; checkbox in the License Management Tool when using the hosted server.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The hosted server is based in a Microsoft Azure data center located in the United States. Note that our static IP address (191.237.154.77) was originally reserved for use in Brazil, but Microsoft has since &lt;a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/windows-azures-use-of-non-us-ipv4-address-space-in-us-regions/" target="_blank"&gt;repurposed it for use in the United States because of the shortage of available IPv4 addresses&lt;/a&gt;. While major geolocation services should show the correct location, some may show a discrepancy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following support solution provides some additional information regarding the &lt;a href="/products/licensing/w/licensing__wiki/22197.how-does-bentley-connect-selectservices-differ-from-a-deployed-selectserver" target="_blank"&gt;differences between a deployed server and Bentley&amp;#39;s hosted server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/376360?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 15:33:32 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b67f654f-07fc-4c17-af9e-e2bd518f1b8a</guid><dc:creator>Bigean</dc:creator><description>Jeremy,&lt;br /&gt;
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to be able to move to hosted selectserver, I need more background info like a full description of data transmitted from clients to Bentley, which of those are pseudonymized (hashed), the strength of encryptions, what choice of data centers we have where your service is running (region/country/provider) and so on.&lt;br /&gt;
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Can you give me a link to a Tech Note? I can only find such things for deployed server.&lt;br /&gt;
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I suggest you guys publish this in public since more (European) customers will be interested in that. Otherwise please give advice which category I should use in a service request. Thank you&lt;br /&gt;
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Bigean&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375946?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2016 08:50:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:1c9d6db7-10d9-48ac-b0bf-ff14f1bfadc1</guid><dc:creator>Bigean</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;jeremyhoesly&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="quote-header"&gt;The start and stop times are not reported to Bentley from deployed servers, so there is no way to recalculate the peaks using the new 10-minute interval. Bentley has access to this data on the hosted server (i.e. Bentley CONNECT SELECTservices) for recalculation efforts, hence the recommendation to &lt;a href="/products/licensing/w/licensing__wiki/17090.selectserver-online-migration-faq" target="_blank"&gt;migrate to the hosted server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;[/quote]&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;Thanks for this clear answer. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375877?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 18:51:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:496993b7-904c-44c0-972c-b7f721bcf8ff</guid><dc:creator>Jeremy Hoesly</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;Bigean&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So maybe the analysis reports from deployed Selectservers will show the old counting results to us, but after nightly upload to Bentley your calculations (and invoices)&amp;nbsp;will be based on the 10 minute intervals?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Deployed servers send the following information to Bentley:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Peak usage for products using the one-hour interval&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hashed machine names and the dates when products were used&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hashed user names and the dates when products were used (for passports)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The start and stop times are not reported to Bentley from deployed servers, so there is no way to recalculate the peaks using the new 10-minute interval. Bentley has access to this data on the hosted server (i.e. Bentley CONNECT SELECTservices) for recalculation efforts, hence the recommendation to &lt;a href="/products/licensing/w/licensing__wiki/17090.selectserver-online-migration-faq" target="_blank"&gt;migrate to the hosted server&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375819?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 09:17:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:2524ed05-072b-4e82-9b25-5c635795275f</guid><dc:creator>Oto</dc:creator><description>Some of customers which recently joined SELECT have received false invoices for QTL2 even they have just signed SELECT and any excess usage was impossible as before non-SELECT licenses were used. They are billed for retroactive usage. This issue is not resolved for more than year and leaves bad impression. Sending automatic invoices without manual reviewing for new SELECT accounts when the system apparently  is not mature enough is risky. Of course they are later cancelled but still it is hassle and not welcoming at all. &lt;br /&gt;
Also as the activation key remains the same licenses still remain checked-out and are not reset to pooled usage which again triggers false QTLs.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375817?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2016 08:58:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:89473db4-a028-45ae-ad02-4ee3950f4b96</guid><dc:creator>Bigean</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;So as an intermediate summary:&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; With the change, when users on machines don&amp;#39;t overlap for at least a minute, Bentley never counts it as concurrent use. Using a product less than 10 minutes doesn&amp;#39;t count as use at all.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; If machines overlap up to &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;18/19&lt;/span&gt; (correction) 9 minutes, there&amp;#39;s a chance that this is not counted as concurrent use.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Only if machines overlap clearly, it will be 100% treated as concurrent use. This policy is fair and satisfies our expectation of concurrent licenses.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; So *one* of many downsides of Bentley licence strategy is resolved, that made me loosing confidence into Bentley. But issues like post-charge, no limit to owned licenses, sublicenses in products surprising users with post-invoices, charging a quarter fee or month fee for some hours of overuse, no real time usage status, ..., remain to bother us. They should be discussed in other threads.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; End of intermediate summary.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Now what&amp;#39;s this with old products and old deployed selectserver?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375674?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2016 08:12:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:98f66011-f96f-40e3-9ce1-27294059e486</guid><dc:creator>Bigean</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;DanielB&amp;quot;]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As described in the &lt;a title="Term License Fact Sheet" href="https://www.bentley.com/~/asset/14/9787.ashx"&gt;Term License&amp;nbsp;Fact Sheet&lt;/a&gt;, the change to the interval only applies to usage sent to the Bentley-hosted SELECTserver. &amp;nbsp;Accounts using a locally deployed SELECTserver will continue to count peak usage based the calendar-hour interval. &amp;nbsp;That&amp;#39;s true regardless of when the product was released.[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hi Daniel,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;but here I get a slightly different impression:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;[quote]&lt;b&gt;Do I have to be using a CONNECT Edition version for usage to be calculated using the 10 minute intervals?&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;All invoices for all products will use the 10 minute interval counting and peak usage calculation rules.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;Users using deployed SELECTserver will still be subject to these policies, however, may not gain the full advantage because the SELECTserver instance they are using will be unable to benefit from the changes. Therefore, it is recommended that all users migrate to Hosted SELECTserver to avail of these benefits.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;Users with versions of products released prior to August 2015 (or using versions of the License Management Tool prior to version 9.2.0.25) will still have their usage calculated using the 10 minute policies but in some instances may not get the full advantage of the peak application usage calculations. It is recommended to upgrade to CONENCT Edition or product versions containing License Management Tool version 9.2.0.25 or later.[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(from &lt;a href="/products/licensing/w/licensing__wiki/29816.term-licensing-and-application-usage-faqs"&gt;communities.bentley.com/.../29816.term-licensing-and-application-usage-faqs&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So maybe the analysis reports from deployed Selectservers will show the old counting results to us, but after nightly upload to Bentley your calculations (and invoices)&amp;nbsp;will be based on the 10 minute intervals?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375591?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 19:35:21 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:01845e49-703f-4d6f-addb-2f2d1cd1a0a3</guid><dc:creator>DanielB</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;As described in the &lt;a title="Term License Fact Sheet" href="https://www.bentley.com/~/asset/14/9787.ashx"&gt;Term License&amp;nbsp;Fact Sheet&lt;/a&gt;, the change to the interval only applies to usage sent to the Bentley-hosted SELECTserver. &amp;nbsp;Accounts using a locally deployed SELECTserver will continue to count peak usage based the calendar-hour interval. &amp;nbsp;That&amp;#39;s true regardless of when the product was released.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375521?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:19:14 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a223a9b5-5f7f-4a9f-958d-ad6a17ba9bc7</guid><dc:creator>Bigean</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;DanielB&amp;quot;]That&amp;#39;s not entirely accurate. ... In other words, we drop partially filled windows at the beginning of a session, but not at the end of the session.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;[/quote]Thank you! I changed my post to reflect that.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, let&amp;#39;s dig deeper. Using products released before August 2015, and licensing via deployed SELECTServer do not fully &amp;quot;benefit&amp;quot; from this, although the 10 minute slices also work for their usage. What does that mean in detail? What are the missing benefits?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375518?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 13:12:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:4385ae71-f2ce-41f7-a331-5bcf81545c71</guid><dc:creator>Oto</dc:creator><description>This change must have been made before QTL were introduced as is less aggressive and more accurate to true usage. &lt;br /&gt;
Still there are specific sites which can&amp;#39;t take advantage of license pool. For example Surveyors as when they work on field the licenses are idle  but at the end of the day when returning to the office there is a rush hour to process collected data. So there is large usage peak but average usage is still low. If they need to cover all peak usage then there is no difference as with using perpetual licenses. Even with QTL they tend to use hot-seat machines.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375510?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 12:46:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:94a588a4-38a7-4437-b85a-621682248347</guid><dc:creator>DanielB</dc:creator><description>That&amp;#39;s not entirely accurate.  Any usage at the beginning of the session that doesn&amp;#39;t fill up its 10-minute window will indeed not count towards the peak usage.  Counting will start with the first full bucket.  However, any usage after that first full bucket will count towards the peak in each 10-minute window.  In other words, we drop partially filled windows at the beginning of a session, but not at the end of the session.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Still, the number of resulting licenses counted in your examples seem to be correct.  You&amp;#39;re right in saying that it&amp;#39;s a dramatic change and it is a tremendous benefit for Term License subscribers.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/375503?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:46:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:2ac04045-3d4b-48a1-aa37-fa10f02411e9</guid><dc:creator>Bigean</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Wow, I just heard of the changes Bentley made. This is good news.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many of us thought the pooled licenses under the select program would act as concurrent licenses. They were not. Now they almost are. Common sense can be used now to forecast the license usage :) The new &amp;quot;10 minute intervals&amp;quot; help a lot, and there&amp;#39;s more behind it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Before:&lt;/strong&gt; The usage was binned into calender hours&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A User on PC A opens a session 10:02 and ends 10:08&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A User on PC&amp;nbsp;B 10:18 - 10:42&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A User on PC&amp;nbsp;C 10:35 - 10:40&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A User on PC D 10:52 - 11:10&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Common sense would make you believe that the peak usage was 2 licenses: PC B and C between 10:35 -10:40 overlapped with usage. But Bentley counted different. 4 different PC&amp;#39;s within the same calender hour &amp;quot;10:00 - 11:00&amp;quot; =4 license usages! This was really hard to explain to user groups.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;From now on:&lt;/strong&gt; The usage is now binned into 10 minute slices: Minute 1-10, 11-20, and so on. Only usages filling such a bin completley will start&amp;nbsp;the count! What happens to the usage:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A User on PC A opens a session 10:02 and ends 10:08 - does not count, because less than 10 minutes use. no license usage.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A User on PC&amp;nbsp;B 10:18 - 10:42 - counts as usage in slices 10:21-10:30, 10:31-10:40. the first&amp;nbsp;2 minutes are ignored&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A User on PC&amp;nbsp;C 10:35 - 10:40 - does not count, because less than 10 minutes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A User on PC D 10:52 - 11:10 - counts as usage in slice 11:01-11:10. the other minutes are ignored&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Result: one license used!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;More surprising: &lt;/span&gt;Changed after DanielB corrected another time:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PC E: Usage from 7:15 - 08:10 , fills 5 slices between 7:21-08:10&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PC F: Usage from 7:22 - 7:39, &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;fills no slice completely - no usage counted&lt;/span&gt; more than 10 minutes usage, will be counted in the 7:30 - 7:40 slice&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Result: &lt;span style="text-decoration:line-through;"&gt;one license used!!&lt;/span&gt; Two licenses used&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a dramatic change. Bravo! Even if users don&amp;#39;t get the idea - what Bentley counts is less than common sense would tell. (note: AFAIK ELS subscription does not change the mechanism - usage blocks a license until midnight)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bigean&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Added after input Daniel B.:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PC E: Usage from 7:15 - 08:10 , fills 5 slices between 7:21-08:10&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PC G: Usage from 7:22 - 7:41, fills&amp;nbsp;2 slices 7:31-7:40 and 7:41-7:50&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2 licenses used&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Still fair comparing it to &amp;quot;real concurrent count&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/374988?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:21:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:87eeb4aa-0b13-404f-960a-4672506f47e3</guid><dc:creator>xander76</dc:creator><description>I was contacted last week saying these policies have been in affect since April and this newsletter was sent out months ago???  I mentioned that i never received it, and this must be why.  It was just officially sent out???&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/374897?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 06:58:28 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:c622af49-46a5-4298-9c27-825011015724</guid><dc:creator>Oto</dc:creator><description>There is now a such fact sheet to explain 10-minute intervals - &lt;a href="https://www.bentley.com/~/asset/14/9787.ashx"&gt;www.bentley.com/.../9787.ashx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Still the wording is too complicated and it lacks examples to understand if this works as expected.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/368222?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2016 08:47:17 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a392db76-ae44-4ad6-962a-15f22b274031</guid><dc:creator>Koert</dc:creator><description>Hello Elisabeth,&lt;br /&gt;
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it&amp;#39;s been almost a week now. Any idea when we can expect this official announcement?&lt;br /&gt;
This week? Next week? This month?&lt;br /&gt;
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Thank you in advance.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Changes to the Licensing Increment?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/367429?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 22:11:16 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a875100c-124e-4ff6-9597-1019e1c36efa</guid><dc:creator>Elisabeth Jaouad</dc:creator><description>Hi CADDCOP, we are indeed in the process of revising the hourly increment to a 10 minute interval. The changes are expected to go into effect for invoices for this quarter (which are billed in the first week of July). Official announcements are in process and should be released shortly.&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>