Hi David,

I believe I understand your questions; however feel free to note anything that may be off.

1. To answer your first question - I'm not positive, but given what I know of the system that MediaLab and DirectRT use to register software, it wouldn't be quite possible to simply copy a pre-activated version of the file: "license2008.dll" unless it was pre-activated on the same machine that is being used to install the software on. In other words, if you want to setup a system object for the ZenWorks service with MediaLab and DirectRT for each computer, you would need to have a license file generated for that computer, and then use that license file with the application object. If you reformat, you would most likely need to regenerate this license file once more.

Hm. If I were the system administrator in this situation, I would write a batch file to install both MediaLab and DirectRT on each machine, have the software run as you're doing, find a way to get a list of each reference code that is generated for each machine, compile this list and send it to Empirisoft, and then activate each machine. I would then use the license files saved on each computer and add them to the application object that your deployment system uses. From here I would uninstall both programs and test the system setup. The license files in their pre-activated form should work for the programs once the programs are re-installed. MediaLab and DirectRT will not try to overwrite the license file or read it incorrectly as long as the given user has read and write privileges for the license. The licenses do not require write privileges per se if the file is already activated; however both programs require license file 'checks' that use write privileges. In other words, the license files that are deployed will never actually be changed; however the user installing the software will need read and write privileges to this file.

Another note: You may want to have the pre-activated license file copy to the folder either before or after the first run and first close of the software. This way you will not have to worry about the license file being tampered with for the first time while the software is running.

2. Using the following command in the command line: 'medialab2008.msi /?' you can see what other options the install file has to offer. Setting these flags will allow for you to specify that you want the installation to generate additional items (ie. shortcuts etc.) or complete additional tasks.

Let me know if this helps.

Regards,
Trevor