Important Autodesk User Management Changes

ATG Senior Tier 1 Technical Support Specialist Angela shares vital information about Autodesk User Management changes in the following blog.

Autodesk is in the process of switching clients who are on term based single-user subscriptions over to a new type of activation method, where users “sign in” instead of putting in a “serial number”. We have been informed that all clients will be converted to this new activation type eventually. The main change being made is where and how you manage your end user assignments.

Licenses with the new activation type of “sign in” are assigned on the new user management pages “by user” and/or “by product”, whereas the older “serial number” licenses are still assigned in the “classic user management page”. I find the “by user” page to be more intuitive and much more like the “classic user management” that is used for assigning licenses with the older activation type of “serial…