What is the difference between NI Disconnected and Home licenses?

Updated Aug 25, 2023

Issue Details

What is the difference between NI Disconnected and Home licenses?
Why I can create a Disconnected license but no Home license?
 

Solution

Home Licenses:
A Home License is similar to a Disconnected License but does not consume a license on the volume license server and is intended for home use only, according to the terms of your volume license agreement with NI. A home license cannot contain concurrent or debug licenses. Only non-concurrent, non-debug, and non-deployment licenses are eligible for a Home License. You can find more details regarding the different NI license types in Understanding NI Software Policies.

Before creating a Home License file, you must first add a user or computer and assign any appropriate permissions. For more information, refer to Adding Users or Computers .

Disconnected License:
Disconnected Licenses are useful for clients working on client machines unattached to the network. Without a disconnected license, these clients are not able to use their NI software at all times. Disconnected licenses consume a license on the volume license server. Please note if the client machine will be disconnected from the network for less than 14 days, you do not need to create a disconnected license file. For more information, refer to Using Temporary Network Licenses. A client can still check out a license from the server even if that named-user or computer-based license is in the disconnected state. You must create separate disconnected license files for computer-based and named-user licenses. If a client has both types of permissions, you must disconnect both the user and the computer. Only non-concurrent, non-debug, and non-deployment licenses are eligible for a Disconnected License.