MapInfo Pro

Good morning,

I don't know if you are able to help me. We have 10 licences within the Council, is there a way of running a report to tell which pcs these are registered to. I am coming up against a brick wall with our in house IT department who you would have thought would know where they had installed them, but this isn't the case. 

Thanks in anticipation of your help.

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Sharon Bates
Mapping Technician
Broxbourne Borough Council
WALTHAM CROSS
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Hi Sharon

Typically not. If you activate a node-locked license, we get no information about the end-user - name or mail. We only get something that identifies the computer. But this isn't something that can be reverted back to for example a computer name or similar. So nothing you or we can use to identify the computer or user.

If you by any chance are using a concurrent license, the log file on the license server will tell you what users are using MapInfo Pro at which times.

Some IT organisations have a centralised tool that can be used to search the individual computers for a specific file, say MapInfoPro.exe. Maybe your IT has access to such a tool?

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Peter Horsbøll Møller
Distinguished Engineer
Pitney Bowes Software & Data
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2020 04:33
From: Sharon Bates
Subject: Licence locations/registrations

Good morning,

I don't know if you are able to help me. We have 10 licences within the Council, is there a way of running a report to tell which pcs these are registered to. I am coming up against a brick wall with our in house IT department who you would have thought would know where they had installed them, but this isn't the case.

Thanks in anticipation of your help.

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Sharon Bates
Mapping Technician
Broxbourne Borough Council
WALTHAM CROSS
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Original Message:
Sent: 6/29/2020 9:11:00 AM
From: Peter Horsbøll Møller
Subject: RE: Licence locations/registrations

Hi Sharon

Typically not. If you activate a node-locked license, we get no information about the end-user - name or mail. We only get something that identifies the computer. But this isn't something that can be reverted back to for example a computer name or similar. So nothing you or we can use to identify the computer or user.

If you by any chance are using a concurrent license, the log file on the license server will tell you what users are using MapInfo Pro at which times.

Some IT organisations have a centralised tool that can be used to search the individual computers for a specific file, say MapInfoPro.exe. Maybe your IT has access to such a tool?

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Peter Horsbøll Møller
Distinguished Engineer
Pitney Bowes Software & Data
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2020 04:33
From: Sharon Bates
Subject: Licence locations/registrations

Good morning,

I don't know if you are able to help me. We have 10 licences within the Council, is there a way of running a report to tell which pcs these are registered to. I am coming up against a brick wall with our in house IT department who you would have thought would know where they had installed them, but this isn't the case.

Thanks in anticipation of your help.

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Sharon Bates
Mapping Technician
Broxbourne Borough Council
WALTHAM CROSS
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Hi Sharon
If you are still using 32-bit MapInfo then you need to search for mapinfow.exe
64-bit MapInfo uses MapInfoPro.exe
Regards

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John Ievers
CDR Group
Hope Valley, United Kingdom
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2020 09:36
From: Sharon Bates
Subject: Licence locations/registrations

Thank you Peter,

 

I will copy this to our It and see what they can do.

 

Kind regards

 

Sharon Bates

Sharon Bates

Technical Mapping & Administration Officer | Broxbourne Borough Council 

Bishops College | Churchgate | Cheshunt | EN8 9XB

 

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Original Message:
Sent: 6/29/2020 9:11:00 AM
From: Peter Horsbøll Møller
Subject: RE: Licence locations/registrations

Hi Sharon

Typically not. If you activate a node-locked license, we get no information about the end-user - name or mail. We only get something that identifies the computer. But this isn't something that can be reverted back to for example a computer name or similar. So nothing you or we can use to identify the computer or user.

If you by any chance are using a concurrent license, the log file on the license server will tell you what users are using MapInfo Pro at which times.

Some IT organisations have a centralised tool that can be used to search the individual computers for a specific file, say MapInfoPro.exe. Maybe your IT has access to such a tool?

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Peter Horsbøll Møller
Distinguished Engineer
Pitney Bowes Software & Data

Original Message:
Sent: 06-29-2020 04:33
From: Sharon Bates
Subject: Licence locations/registrations

Good morning,

I don't know if you are able to help me. We have 10 licences within the Council, is there a way of running a report to tell which pcs these are registered to. I am coming up against a brick wall with our in house IT department who you would have thought would know where they had installed them, but this isn't the case.

Thanks in anticipation of your help.

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Sharon Bates
Mapping Technician
Broxbourne Borough Council
WALTHAM CROSS
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