Saving account information in a report
The Licenses tab in the TPDU console displays both locally installed license keys, as well as those that are installed on the ThinPrint license server – provided the license server address is specified in one of the installed ThinPrint components. The Licenses tab only appears if a license server is specified locally, or if a license key is installed.
The page is divided into two sections:
- ThinPrint License Server
- License usage
- with the submenu ThinPrint Users
(which you call up with the Show Users button)
Administrator permissions
If the TPDU was not started with local administrator rights, then you have the option to add them here.
- Click on Run with Elevated Privileges to proceed with admin rights (arrow).
selecting Run with Elevated Privileges to proceed with admin rights
ThinPrint License Server
A table displays all the license keys installed on the local computer plus, from ThinPrint version 10.0, those installed on the ThinPrint license server1, that have their address specified in one of the locally installed ThinPrint components. The license keys are sorted here according to product and by the location of the installation, e. g. Personal Printing (on Localhost).
You can also see whether the license server is accessible and when the last synchronization between the ThinPrint component and the license server took place. You can use the Sync with License Server Now button to start the synchronization immediately.
Information about the license server and the table of license keys:
| Menu / Table column / Button | Description |
| (License Server address:TCP port) | • ThinPrint license server address, as it is specified (tp-lics-05 in the screenshot) in the ThinPrint component (e. g. ThinPrint Engine) |
| Status | information regarding whether a license server has been specified and if it’s accessible |
| Last synchronization | date and time of the last synchronization, providing one has already occurred (otherwise unknown is displayed) |
| Sync with License Server Now | • start synchronization between the ThinPrint component and the license server • synchronization progress bar below right |
| Sync with ThinPrint Engines Now | • start synchronization of the license server with all ThinPrint Engines (those that are already connected with the license server) |
| License Key | license key (information from the ThinPrint license manager) |
| Registration Key | registration key (information from the ThinPrint license manager) |
| Activation Key | activation key (information from the ThinPrint license manager) |
| Valid | license key valid or invalid (information from the ThinPrint license manager) |
| Valid Until | period of validity of the license key, if it has an expiry date (information from the ThinPrint license manager) |
| File→ Re-scan or F5 | information is rescanned |
You can find further information on this in the documentation for the License Server.
License usage
All available user licenses for printing with a ThinPrint Engine, with their license types, are shown here.
Overview of all currently free ThinPrint user licenses (here: 10–3 = 7):
- With a click on the Show Users button, you can obtain a detailed overview of all user licenses (see below).
You can find further information on this in the documentation for the License Server.
| Menu/Table column/Button | Description |
| Overall licenses | the number of available licenses for printing with a ThinPrint Engine |
| Blocked licenses | • the number of currently blocked licenses |
| License type | the type of ThinPrint license key installed on the license server |
| Show Users | button for opening the account overview |
| File→ Re-scan or F5 | information is rescanned |
ThinPrint users
Using the Show Users option, you obtain an overview of all available user accounts on the license server. You can also partly edit them directly in the TPDU.
Note! To display the users from the license server, you need to be using a domain account that allows you to configure the license server. Generally, this is not the domain administrator, but a normal domain user who is member of the local ThinPrint Configuration Admins group on the license server.
Normal domain user as a member of the local ThinPrint Configuration Admins group on the license server:
- You can click on the column header to sort the rows in the table.
User information obtained from the license server:
Table of user accounts
User information displayed anonymously:
Context menu: user accounts enabled, disabled, recovered or removed:
Filter functions
| Menu | Description |
| Enabled users | filter for enabled user accounts |
| Disabled users | filter for disabled user accounts |
| Removed users | filter for removed user accounts |
| Search for user account or SID | • search for user accounts using their SAM account name or their SID |
Filtering user accounts:
Finding a user account:
More functions
Saving account information in a report
For reporting purposes, you can export the list of users (in the .mht or .csv formats). This is particularly useful for service providers.
- For this purpose, select File→ Export User List.
Exporting the user list:
You can then select from the following options:
| Menu/Button | Description |
| Complete user list | write all user accounts into the report |
| Filtered users | only write filtered user accounts into the report |
| Show user names | write user names from the Active Directory into the report |
| Anonymous user names | write anonymized names into the report |
| Choose Logo | place a specific company logo in the report |
| Save As | save in .mht or .csv format |
Selecting export options:
Saving report:
See also Creating TPDU report and Collecting support information.