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We won't know until the actual product ships, and the text of the licensing on Microsoft's site changes, but departments or the campus may need a licensing server for MS products. Enterprise installs of Office 2007 apparently will require an enterprise licensing server or a connection to MS for validation. We'll have to see what the academic licensing actually says. As to a shutdown, if the license says the vendor can shut down the product, believe them. Perhaps it is time - before you go much further with your "Adobe License Manager" (ALM) to coordinate a campus ALM inside ACNS? There are other products, some open source, that support PDF file creation. Do your users have to use Adobe Pro? Our standard load includes the free CutePDF Printer. I rename it to just PDF Printer as some thought the Cute in the name made it a toy. You might want to test a PDF server and let everyone 'print' to that. I have tested this one http://www.n-view.net/Appliance/main.php personally, but haven't tried to push its adoption. Don Bosman Information Technologist Libraries, Michigan State University 100 Library East Lansing, MI 48824-1048 [log in to unmask] (517) 432-6123 ext 233 Fax (517) 432-8374 -----Original Message----- From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Stephen W Asman Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:06 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [MSUNAG] Adobe License Manger We were getting ready to start installing Adobe Acrobat Pro 8 on several machines that we support here. We've been buying the licenses for a couple of weeks now and just received the installation media. When I logged on to Adobe license site to get our licenses keys there's an extensive notice about "Adobe License Manager" (ALM). Everything seems to indicate that this is a requirement now. The choices are basically that either we let Adobe monitor our license compliance, or we need to set up an ALM server to monitor it ourselves. I have several problems with this: 1. We are in the process of setting up an asset management system that will monitor our license compliance on all of the software that our unit supports. I see no need to set up a separate service just to accommodate one vendor. 2. Will we soon need to have ALM like products for each major software title we support? 3. What sort of information does this thing send out and receive? 4. Could Adobe turn off our Acobat 8 licenses when they decide not to support it any more? Could go on but I don't want to rant for too long. Am I way off base here or does this thing bother anybody else? --------------------------------- Stephen W. Asman Microcomputer Hardware & Software Coordinator Health Information Technology Room A536C East Fee Hall Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824 [log in to unmask] (517) 355-6531