Limit concurrent instances of an app

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Jason King

Hello all,

Is there a way to limit how many users can open a specific application? For
example, we would like to setup a terminal server for around 50 users.
However, we have license restrictions on some software - lets say 5 users
can run Application X. How can I tell the terminal server to allow 5
instances of Application X so when the sixth user attempts to run it, the
user gets denied?

We need to lock this down to either the instance or computer. We cannot set
to specific "users" because we are in a school environment and would not
work on a per user security basis...

TIA,

Jason
 
There are a couple of ways you can do this.
One way is to install the application on a shared drive (or share
the folder that the application is installed in), and put a limit
on the number of connections to the share.
You have to make sure that all shortcuts to the application use
the UNC path, i.e. \\server\share\myapp.exe, and not a local path
like D:\app_folder\myapp.exe

You could also use a freeware tool, which uses a different
approach:

Keeping compliant with software licensing through a batch file
http://terminal.servebeer.com/php/license_compliance.php
 
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