Cubase 10 - Deploy and License

[petben]

Hello, we are looking to buy Cubase 10.5 on Win10 to replace our ageing Macs. I looked a this briefly last year with v9 and the licensing\deployment was a bit of a nightmare.

 

1. For simplicity I was thinking of USB dongles, but then I think this still requires some elicenser settings?
   
2. Has anyone deployed using MSI or silent install?
   
3. How about the settings to prevent updates etc? can we push out a settings file?
   

 

 

Anyone successfully using Cubase in school?

Thanks for any ideas/comments.

[DrCheese]

Don't use the USB dongles as the kids will just pinch them (You'd have to glue them in!)

I use the soft e-licenses and register them online so I can recover them in the event of PC failure

 

We deploy it manually in the music suite as it was the quickest option in the end.

 

Updates - We just don't install them unless needed? (Last time we did a 10.5 update it broke more than it fixed so!)

[free780]

I did a powershell script due to the certificate installation. It doesn't seem to install in a Task sequence but works from the software centre. Cubase do provide a admin setup utility so it will create Msis. I inherited USB dongles which we hide in PCs. Why on earth they can't provide a licence server I don't know. On macs you have to run Cubase as an administrator to click OK to give permission for the microphone on mojave.