Issue with mixture of online and offline activation

Found a way to juggle online and offline activation and activate more machines than the license key should allow.

Step One:

- Machine B, using a product key that only supports 1 activation.- TA_CheckAndSavePKey(key, ...)- TA_ActivationRequestToFile(...)- Create the offline activation response file, but don't use it.- Do an online TA_Activate() with the product key.- Do an online TA_Deactivate()

Step Two:

- Machine A- TA_Activate() with the product key

Step Three:

- Machine B- TA_CheckAndSavePKey(key, ...)- TA_ActivationRequestToFile(...)- **Don't** submit for a new offline activation response file.- TA_ActivateFromFile(file_created_earlier)

At this point have two machines activated with a single-activation product key.

To repeat: deactivate on A and repeat the same steps, replacing B with C, D, and so on.

Yes, this is by design (and mentioned every few months in the forum). Perhaps we should create a help article explaining this.

When you allow offline activations limit the number of deactivations (or dont allow deactivations at all). And if you do allow deactivations ensure that at least X days has past (the expiration date of the activation response file)

Or make it a requirement that every user reverifies after Y days.

In other words this problem is prevented on your side of things and how you issue activations, deactivations, etc.

Ah, ok. Thanks. Sorry, didn't see the other posts on this.

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