Regaining windchill Licenses after a user is removed

[tjerome]

I am running Windchill PDM Link 11.1 CPS 20. When a user retires of leaves the company I have an account that can be disabled or removed from Windchill DS and Windchill. My question is what happens to their license allocation? Do I get those back?

For example each Windchill user expends or gets one of these licenses in 11.1 

 PTC mechanical Design I License

 PTC IP Protection License

 PTC EBOM Mgmt License

PTC Author License

Would I get these back each time I remove a user from Windchill or is there some other process.

[mmeadows-3 · Accepted solution]

When a user is deleted from Windchill, they are automatically deleted from all group memberships.  Since licensing is applied via groups, the licenses are automatically returned to the pool of available licenses.

[tjerome]

Thank you!

[ScottMorris]

we move "leavers" to the Deleted Org in Windchill since we have many "returners". moving a user from one Org to another does not remove their group affiliations, so you must manually remove their groups and license groups as part of the process.

its a tedious process, but allows us to bring back returning users to their same account without creating a new one.