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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>Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/projectwise/f/projectwise-di-forum/236407/grant-a-pw-ses-license</link><description>Greetings, 
 I have a hypothetical that may or may nor remain so. I&amp;#39;m looking for information as to how best to grant use of PW to a user, as we have an external user we may need to grant a PW license to. Back before the advent of SES licensing, we could</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/737976?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 16:33:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:2a42e496-e0c6-4399-a216-5d71b319b35a</guid><dc:creator>Kevin van Haaren</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;This is what I do:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;User Management
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Groups &amp;gt; New Group
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Group Name&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Turn Entitlement checkbox on&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Set Entitlement Country/Region&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Set Description (this is required, don&amp;#39;t know why)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Entitlement Management
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Set Region at top (defaults to Global)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Users &amp;amp; Groups &amp;gt; Entitlement Groups&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Group created in step above takes awhile to show up, once it does:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Allowed Applications tab&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Turn off include allowed applications from Region and Global&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Search for application in search field*&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Check applications to add and click + next to search field&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When I&amp;#39;m in Entitlement Management this is the menu I see on the left:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Groups have to be created in User Management first, and it takes&amp;nbsp;10-15 minutes to show up in Entitlement Management&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/737773?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 20:45:49 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3006e953-2e46-42ea-9ceb-268a7028455d</guid><dc:creator>jcallicott</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Okay, dumb question: I see no option anywhere to assign use of PW Explorer to any group, nor assign entitlements per group. Bentley&amp;#39;s currently posted instructions say once you get to Entitlement Management &amp;quot;I&lt;span&gt;n left navigation menu under Users and Groups icon select Allowed Access Group.&amp;quot; This is not an option, so none of the steps past this one are possible. I cannot see an option to assign or limit ProjectWise&amp;nbsp;Explorer use - it does not show in the list of Applications. Under Entitlements, I am unable to click&amp;nbsp;my CSS. Do I have a rare eye disease? What am I missing?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/736203?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:50:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3fdb3d44-c0be-40d5-a0b6-ccfb1511b968</guid><dc:creator>Kevin van Haaren</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Ah crap, i misread the Virtuosity site, cost is $860/year for ProjectWise Explorer level access, the $260/year is ProjectWise 365 access.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/736202?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:47:36 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:89c6eec1-f0aa-400b-b976-e2d8d2eb6100</guid><dc:creator>Kevin van Haaren</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Actually the opposite, the emails must be different.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When they login with the projectwise account, microstation will still try and get a license from your system. It will be denied because that email is only allowed an entitlement for ProjectWise.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However the way Bentley&amp;#39;s licensing works being denied a license doesn&amp;#39;t block you from the product. Instead the product records it&amp;#39;s usage locally and you can proceed normally -- for up to 7 days. When they login with their microstation email, before or&amp;nbsp;after&amp;nbsp;the 7 days of activation expire, and then&amp;nbsp;open Microstation&amp;nbsp;-- all that usage is reported to Bentley and the activation is renewed for another 7 days. That way their licensing takes into account actual product usage.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bentley&amp;#39;s system is setup with 1 email address = 1 account. If you were to try to add an account using an email that already has an account with a different company it would not be allowed.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Phil&amp;#39;s suggestion of them using Virtuosity, i&amp;#39;m not sure all the ins and outs, but I assume it would add a license to that user&amp;#39;s account on their company&amp;#39;s system. In this scenario you would use their own company&amp;#39;s email address as the IMS identity for their user account inside of ProjectWise. That would then be used for authentication, but not licensing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Other than cost to the other party ($260/year) the only reason you might not want to do this is&amp;nbsp;if you want more control over some of the account policies like password changes or mandatory 2 factor authentication.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/736197?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:17:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:078d8ec6-f4d2-4020-a358-b55b864f51a1</guid><dc:creator>jcallicott</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Kevin, thanks for your reply. I&amp;#39;m assuming it&amp;#39;s key that the entitlement management we would set up for such users would use the &lt;em&gt;exact&lt;/em&gt; same email address they&amp;#39;re putting into CC, correct? That way, it would be possible through CC that their email is used to grant a PW license from one org (say, a company they don&amp;#39;t work for) and license for MicroStation, et al from their own license pool. Am I understanding correctly?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/736196?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2022 16:14:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3b8511b9-d1c9-4796-ab73-40b61f8c2d84</guid><dc:creator>jcallicott</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Phil, my understanding is that Virtuosity is set up for small companies to obtain such licenses? The cost appears to build in some support/training?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/735154?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:29:40 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:2d6bc983-94a2-4dbd-b15e-21a31c97e738</guid><dc:creator>Phil Conard</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Another option is purchasing a license from Virtuosity&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://virtuosity.bentley.com/product/projectwise-explorer-virtuoso-subscription/"&gt;virtuosity.bentley.com/.../&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/734776?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:51 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:405c1ba1-fca5-49e9-92d6-9ef888bb8007</guid><dc:creator>Kevin van Haaren</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;This is a bit of an ugly situation that is supposed to be resolved in an upcoming release (hopefully the next one, and hopefully soon).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Currently what you can do:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Create an Entitlement Group in your User Management&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Assign ONLY ProjectWise Explorer Client entitlement to this group&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Put the accounts you create for these users in this group&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is where it gets ugly for the users, in order to ensure they have a MicroStation/ORD license from their own company they should:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Login to&amp;nbsp;Connection Client with their company&amp;#39;s credentials&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Open MicroStation/ORD and any other products they may need.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Go to the File menu &amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;Tools &amp;gt; License Management&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Verify the application is Activated&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Go to Tools &amp;gt; Send Logs Now&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Close all the apps.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Login to Connection Client with credentials from your ProjectWise. Open ProjectWise and begin working.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What happens here is MicroStation/ORD will use the activation from being logged into their corporate accounts for about 7 days while they connect to your projectwise. They can change their login back to their company account open Microstation/ORD again and the activation will renew.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When&amp;nbsp;our users have to do this with other companies we recommend they just make it a habit on Monday&amp;#39;s to always renew their activations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They can also (if allowed by their company) check out a license from their company&amp;#39;s license server before logging into ProjectWise. However this puts the license into use 24/7 and kills the advantage of license pooling. How expensive that would be for your company I&amp;#39;m not sure. &amp;nbsp;We typically only allow checkouts for about 7 days to cover people in the field so there isn&amp;#39;t really an advantage to our users to do check-outs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Grant a PW SES License?</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/734734?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2022 17:55:26 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:10eccb61-792f-48d3-abad-d9b7ed485869</guid><dc:creator>MHarris</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;We have an external Active Directory that our external users are created in.&amp;nbsp; Each external user creates an account (username, password, their email) which is pulled into a ProjectWise group.&amp;nbsp; This gives them read only access to top level folders.&amp;nbsp; Individual company groups can then be added per project as needed.&amp;nbsp; The external user uses their email to log in to CC and their license is utilized, not ours.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>