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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/"><channel><title>BWiT's Communities Activities</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/members/12c618c1_2d00_be95_2d00_4269_2d00_afbf_2d00_9eb1c73b879e</link><description>Recent activity for people in BWiT's community</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>Open Access Complaint</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/f/forum/99653/open-access-complaint</link><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 01:14:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:37133588-dc21-43c8-bc8b-d43129a2c02c</guid><dc:creator>John McDonald</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;"&gt;I am part of a structural engineering consulting firm that uses several structural analysis software(s) from RAM/Bentley. We have been satisfied with the software up until around a month ago when the comically absurd pricing scheme was explained upon us. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;"&gt;The &amp;quot;Quarterly Hour Usage&amp;quot; billing concept is &amp;hellip; so illogical that it defies the descriptive powers of my vocabulary. If the price of their software needs to increase to meet their business goals, then Bentley should raise their prices. I can review the increased costs, compare it to the benefit of having/using the software, and then make annual budgeting decisions. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;"&gt;For those who are not familiar with the &amp;#39;hourly usage&amp;#39; concept, here is how it works: if one engineer uses the software from 9am until 10.15am, and then a separate engineer, on a different computer uses the same software beginning at10.30 am, then that counts as the use of 2 licenses. In reality, the software usage has not exceeded the license limit; however, according to Bentley, it has&amp;hellip; it has been used twice within the same arbitrary hour. (consider an analogy of renting ONE bicycle &amp;hellip;you ride it for part of an hour, and then your spouse rides the same bike for the remainder of the &amp;quot;same&amp;quot; hour &amp;hellip; you return the bike, and are charged for TWO bicycles &amp;hellip;b/c 2 people rode the same bike &amp;hellip;within the same hour!?!?!? )&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;"&gt;I am lost as to why Bentley would do this. It appears to be irritating several customers. So far as I understand, Bentley offers no method to actively limit (real-time) the usage within each hour.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;"&gt;I&amp;#39;ve had several conversations with 3 different Bentley people so far. Each has mildly expressed sympathy towards my frustrations, yet each has been unable to offer any solution. They have each noted that I am not the only firm who is disappointed with this unique billing concept, and suggested I write to their forum, so that &amp;quot;management&amp;quot; can see the complaints of their customers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Century Gothic;font-size:small;"&gt;Reluctantly, I have done so. Not only am I frustrated, now I am irritated: not only is the burden of monitoring the usage of their software forces on me, now explaining why is also my responsibility&amp;hellip; and I am the customer !?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Ask A Question I</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/achievements/460ac7df-7ccc-4c42-a204-9e05eef3be09</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 01:24:13 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:067b9fb7-8e1f-41d5-94bf-887f669de988</guid><dc:creator /><description>Ask a question in a forum.</description></item><item><title>MicroStation activation not persisting after installing Connection Client ...</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/f/forum/147837/microstation-activation-not-persisting-after-installing-connection-client</link><pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 02:36:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:96996fa2-59e3-4fab-a665-3376930343dd</guid><dc:creator>BWiT</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Hello. Logged a service request for this nearly 2 weeks ago but no response despite multiple request for an update.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After installing the connection client recently and user logging on successfully, Microstation (and PowerDraft) now start with 15 minute timeout.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Tried activating again which appears successful but 15 minute timeout persists.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is only happenning on a small subset of our 100+ users.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We have completely removed all Bentley products from the pc and reinstalled. No difference.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m hoping to get a license debug log file shortly to see if it provides any clues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MicroStation is V8i version &lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333;float:none;font-family:&amp;#39;Open Sans&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;Helvetica Neue&amp;#39;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;"&gt;10.00.10.19.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333;float:none;font-family:&amp;#39;Open Sans&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;Helvetica Neue&amp;#39;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:inherit;"&gt;&lt;span style="background-color:transparent;color:#333333;float:none;font-family:&amp;#39;Open Sans&amp;#39;,&amp;#39;Helvetica Neue&amp;#39;,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;"&gt;SelectServer is hosted by Bentley - not deployed on-premise.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Does anyone else have any thoughts?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ian.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>Has anyone solved the issue of License overages?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/f/forum/84651/has-anyone-solved-the-issue-of-license-overages</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:47:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:30b123d7-21cf-49d3-bfde-895ad2ac3d38</guid><dc:creator>MaryB</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m a bit late to all the new updates...Is there any solution to the problem of license overages? It&amp;#39;s nice that we can work over in case of emergency, but I&amp;#39;d like a way to deny licenses if we&amp;#39;ve hit our limit for everyday use. Is there anything that can do that?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MaryB&lt;br /&gt;MSTN 08.11.08.357&lt;br /&gt;GPK 08.11.07.566&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>can selectserver restrict usage to number of licenses owned ?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/f/forum/81970/can-selectserver-restrict-usage-to-number-of-licenses-owned</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2015 08:35:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a090154f-0b49-4189-b6f2-67c7b5aa697a</guid><dc:creator>beckwithdw</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Somewhere in the past, selectserver used to limit usage.&amp;nbsp; This was awesome!&amp;nbsp; It kept us in compliance and kept our rep from calling.&amp;nbsp; But maybe&amp;nbsp;all good things do come to an end.&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt; Our users need to experience denial.&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; Maybe version 9 of selectserver will bring back some of the license management functionality we crave.&amp;nbsp; I want my license manager (selectserver)&amp;nbsp;to do more than monitor and report.&amp;nbsp; Pooled and Trust Licensing are failing us.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyone have any info on this topic?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;thanks&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>License requirements for Citrix XenApp environment ...</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/f/forum/107040/license-requirements-for-citrix-xenapp-environment</link><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 05:17:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5990d49b-f0a5-4dec-b9ec-21a84ceb963d</guid><dc:creator>BWiT</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;About to test Microstation and Powerdraft with Citrix XenApp. Wondering if running these in XenApp requires changes to our hosted license file/server?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>CALENDAR HOUR TIME-KEEPING IS THE PROBLEM!</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/licensing_cloud_and_web_services/f/forum/101656/calendar-hour-time-keeping-is-the-problem</link><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 16:03:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5d21d307-f1af-4111-9090-df5c0c600e43</guid><dc:creator>jwillie</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;As has been posted in other threads, the calendar hour time-keeping method has been giving a lot of people grief.&amp;nbsp; To me it really is the source of all of the overuse issues for companies like mine who are more than willing to pay for a set number of licenses which are not overused during any given moment.&amp;nbsp; Bentley needs to change their calendar hour time-keeping method to instantaneous time-keeping so that however many licenses you own (3 in my case) can be used by however many users want to access it (3-at-a-time in my case).&amp;nbsp; So, if 20 people want to use 1 license in the same calendar hour, they would simply have to use it for an average of 3 minutes each.&amp;nbsp; With an instantaneous time-keeping method in place, there would be no overage!!!&amp;nbsp; What a concept!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;#39;s keep this thread with respect to only the calendar hour issue.&amp;nbsp; Please reply accordingly.&amp;nbsp; CALENDAR HOUR TIME-KEEPING NEEDS TO GO!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>