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– This version is portable, just place and run the executable on your Citrix license server – This version can only release one license at a time to be compliant with Citrix licensing terms – Added support for XenApp Advanced Edition (named licensing model) – Fixed an issue with releasing user\device licenses which contains whitespaces – Added support for XenDesktop VDI Edition – Added support for mixed XenDesktop Editions (both Enterprise and Platinum on same license server), if UDadmin GUI detects multiple editions a Combobox is visible to switch between editions : – Added support for multiple license files and SA dates – Changed the window layout so UDadmin GUI also looks good on lower screen resolutions – Added an option to restart the Citrix licensing service and refresh usage afterwards UDadmin GUI isn’t available and supported anymore at the moment. Just like the UDadmin command line tool, UDadmin GUI needs administrative privileges to run properly. But don’t worry UDadmin GUI is UAC aware and will prompt you when necessary. UDadmin GUI works with XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum edition, support for App edition will be included in a future version (very soon!). In other words, you need to run UDadmin GUI on the same machine as where Citrix License Server is running, this is because Citrix doesn’t support running UDadmin remotely.

Citrix License Server installed (UDadmin GUI is tested with version 11.10 and 11.11, but every edition which supports the new licensing model should work).

If you don’t want to wait that long there is also an option in UDadmin GUI to restart the Citrix Licensing service to reflect the updated usage directly afterwards :

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So after releasing licenses the changes are reflected when the next update schedule runs. The XenDesktop named license usage is updated every 15 minutes, in UDadmin GUI you can see when the next update schedule occurs (in blue). Below is a screenshot of UDadmin GUI in action : When you launch UDadmin GUI it determines the licensed feature for you, no configuration is required at all.

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I also added some additional features like exporting the current usage to PDF for reporting purposes. NET application that visualizes the output of UDadmin, and provides an easy way to release single- or multiple licenses at once, just select them and hit release.

To provide something easier to this customers I created a GUI around UDadmin : With this tool you can view and reclaim licenses, but it’s not really user friendly mainly because it runs in a cmd box and it requires the right parameters. You can find it in the LS directory of your license server installation directory.

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We created some temporary accounts for testing purposes, how can we release them?Ĭitrix provides a command line tool named UDadmin to control the license usage, it’s part of the Citrix Licensing server software and installed by default.

What is the balance between User licenses and Device licenses?.

We have a tight budget and don’t want to buy any more licenses then strictly necessary, how can we get better control and insight in the current usage?.

We are running out of licenses but how do we know which users or devices claimed them?.

Since the new licensing model for Citrix XenDesktop, which is based on named users and devices, I have customers asking questions like : Please note: This tool isn’t available anymore