Licensing Objective Trapeze

Objective Trapeze is licensed per user and needs a valid license key in order to run. If no license is found when Objective Trapeze starts users will be prompted to enter their license key, the license can be entered manually but for large organisations it is more convenient to push out the license key to all the users during deployment.

Group Policy can be used to push out the license as Windows registry values. Objective Trapeze reads the license and user preferences from the HKEY _CURRENT _USER registry node.

Your license can be pushed to HKEY _CURRENT _USER registry by setting the following values:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_ CurrenC UserlSoftwarelOnstreaml Trapezel3. OILicense]

UCustomer"="YourCustomerLicenseVafue"

"Location"="YourLocationLicenseValue"

"Key"="YourKeyLicenseValue"

Note:  The above are String registry values (REG_SZ), named "Customer", "Location", "Key". The data value for each is obtained from your license file, e.g. Customer = "Objective Corporation".

Applying your license manually

Users can manually enter the license from within Objective Trapeze.

  1. From the Objective Trapeze Sidebar, click on

  2. Click on the License Details button

  3. Click License File... to browse and select your .tpz license file, or copy and paste your license text into each field

Applying your license using Group Policy

The approach suggested here uses Group Policy Object (GPO) Security Filtering to apply the Objective Trapeze license to a specific group of users. This requires an Organisational Unit (OU) and Security Group be defined to specify which computers and users the Objective Trapeze license will be applied to. We recommend creating an Objective Trapeze Users security group so that the specific users can be easily targeted to apply the Objective Trapeze license.

To create an OU and add computers to it please use Active Directory Users and Computers management console.

  1. Click Start

  2. Select Administrative Tools

  3. Select Active Directory Users and Computers

Though in large organisations its very likely that suitable OUs should already exist for the purpose of deployment and it should just be a matter of identifying which OU the GPO

will be linked to.

  1. Open the Group Policy Management Console (Start > Administrative Tools > Group Policy Management, or gpmc.msc)

  2. Right-Click Group Policy Object, and then click New

  3. Type a name for this new GPO and then press enter, e.g. Apply Objective Trapeze License

  4. Right-Click the new Apply Objective Trapeze License GPO and click Edit

  5. Navigate to User Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Registry

  6. Right click registry and create three new registry items with the following parameters

Note:  Refer to your Objective Trapeze license file (.tpz) for the Customer, Location, and key values. You can open your .tpz file using a text editor such as Notepad.

"Customer" Registry Item  
Action Create
Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key Path SOFTWARE\Onstream\Trapeze\3.0\License
Value name Customer
Value type REG_SZ
Value data Enter the Customer value from your license
"Location" Registry Item  
Action Create
Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key Path SOFTWARE\Onstream\Trapeze\3.0\License
Value name Location
Value type REG_SZ
Value data Enter the Location value from your license
"Key" Registry Item  
Action Create
Hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Key Path SOFTWARE\Onstream\Trapeze\3.0\License
Value name Location
Value type REG_SZ
Value data Enter the Key value from your license

  1. Close the Group Policy Management Editor

  2. Back in Group Policy Management navigate to the Organisational Unit you want to apply this GPO to, right click the OU and then click Link an Existing GPO... Select the Apply Objective Trapeze License GPO and click OK

  3. Expand the OU you have linked the GPO to and select the Apply Objective Trapeze License GPO

  4. In the right pane under Security Filtering section click Add...

  5. Select and add the Security Group of users you want to apply the Objective Trapeze license to

Note:  By default, a GPO is applied to all authenticated users of the domain, in the next step we will disable this behaviour because we only want to apply the Objective Trapeze license to the specific users in the security group.

  1. Go to the Delegation tab and click Advanced...

  2. Select Authenticated users and untick Apply group policy in the list of permissions

  3. Steps completed. The license will be applied for all users of your Objective Trapeze Users security group

Note:  For more information about using Group Policy to deploy Windows registry values please refer to Microsoft documentation.