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> Turns out some of the software running on it had some weird licensing checks tied to the hardware so it refused to start on the new server. This is around th
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> Turns out some of the software running on it had some weird licensing checks tied to the hardware so it refused to start on the new server.
This is around the time when you call that one guy on your team that can reverse engineer and patch out the license check.
- aspenmayer 1y agoInteroperability exception might allow this in exigent circumstances when you do have a valid license, but I wouldn’t do this without running it by the software vendor whose license you are using. In a recovery situation, you’ll probably need to be on the phone a lot, so I can see how you might think it’s quicker to bypass the license check, but that is one person giving some or all of their attention just to that. Disaster recovery isn’t a one person job unless that one person was the whole team anyway, so I think this idea needs to be calibrated somewhat to expectations.