This last week the University finally got a site license for SPSS. This is a huge deal since I’ve had to run SPSS on a Terminal Server the past several years and have people connect to that with Remote Desktop to run SPSS.
With the site license came the ability to both do individual installs, which are tied to a specific machine, and the ability to use a Network License. For doing individual installs, I’d recommend the silent install option, which fellow Mac Admin Patrick Gallagher has detailed instructions on how to do here.
I really really didn’t want to go to each machine and do the install (even though the silent install didn’t require that), and I’d eventually like to put it on our image… so the network license sounded very promising. The idea being, you point the install at a license server, and as long as it can get the okay to run, it doesn’t care what machine it’s on.