Administrator Priveledges on Win 7 for CCS 4.x

Hello

DerekG said:

he installation works fine for CCS 4, except... some of the engineers that have had it installed insist they need local administrator rights just to 'run' the application, not just install it.

Do you know if this is true?  I believe we may be able to have the privileges of the application reset so the user can execute as an administrator.  However, it does not sound right that execution needs local admin rights.

You should be fine to run without admin privileges if you do not install in the default C:\Program Files" or C:\Program Files (x86)" directory. See the below FAQ for more details:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Using_CCS_with_Windows_Vista_and_7#CCSv4.2F5

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/FAQ_-_CCSv4#Q:_Is_Windows_7_supported.3F

DerekG said:

Also - is there a 'floating' or 'network' license available for CCS 4, that we can share (so we limit the number of concurrent users to the number of licenses, for example on our FLEX server)?  We do this with almost every other tool, but the licenses we received are 'dedicated' and not easily floated between users.  (We have to 'unregister' one user and then register the second to move between two users).  We really need to float, please let me know how i convert to floating licenses.

Yes there are floating licenses

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Licensing_-_CCS (see the section under "Floating Licenses")

DerekG said:

Also, is there is an 'uplift' charge for the floating versus non-shared licenses?  

floating licenses are more costly per seat so there will most likely be an additional cost.

Contact ccs_license_file_help@list.ti.com to see how to upgrade your licenses

Thanks

ki

DerekG said:

1)  What license manager software do you use?  We have two FLEXnet servers already, and so I would prefer to use FLEX to manage the licenses.  This requires a license daemon for Flex and a license.dat file for installing/delivering the licenses.

We also use FLEX

DerekG said:

2)  Can I pay to upgrade 'less than' all 6 of the current fixed licenses, (say 4), which would then typically be 'shared' (only 4 used concurrently) by up to 12 engineers (sharing 1:3), for an effective doubling of the number of users available?  Can I get credit for the 6 fixed licenses against the purchase of the 4 floating, or only pay the uplift charge for 4, and get credit for the two not being uplifted?  If so - can I get a quote for this uplift to 4 floating licenses from 6 fixed?

Do you have a local TI sales person you work with?  If so tell them to ping me (John Stevenson) and we can work out a way to do this.  There is no simple way to do it but it can be done.

John