Disable Manual Activation

Hey Michael,

We'd like to disable the "Manual Activation" bit of TurboActivate (so no "Manually activate offiline" option).

No, there currently isn't a way to remove that option from the TurboActivate Wizard. You can, of course, build your own interface without the offline activation option just by using the TurboActivate API.

This is because we need the application to be able to "call home" and check license; so the user needs to be able to connect online; so manual (offline) isn't really an option.

Well, both options "call home" (you can read more about how "activation" (online & offline) works here). If you're talking about IsGenuineEx() -- the function that periodically verifies the activation is still genuine -- then you can configure that to check online regardless of whether the initial activation was online or not.

Thanks Sam,

I guess the issue is that if they required manual activation in the first place; as they couldn't get through to the LimeLM server (this is most probably a proxy server issue by the way!) then we hold out very little hope of them being able to do this subsequently... Hence may as well not bother with manual in the first place.

I'll look at doing our own version of the turbo activation "wizard" (which might work around the proxy issue too).

Thanks,

Michael.

as they couldn't get through to the LimeLM server (this is most probably a proxy server issue by the way!)

TurboActivate should automatically detect the proxy setting for Internet Explorer. But did they try manually specifying the proxy?:

TurboActivate.exe --proxy="http://username:password@host:port/"

Also, maybe it was a firewall or router issue. Can they access wyday.com/limelm/ in their browser?