First up, thanks for manual deactivation. This has saved me a couple of times. Like today.

I had my SF running nicely on my laptop. I returned to the office, launched the licence activation client, and it came up in red, because my network card wasn't plugged in. I thought that as I was looking to deactivate,  I would just progress through to the deactivation and it came up nice and green 'deactivation successful'. Great.

No. I am now working on my desktop, and I am told there are no licences available. In my account, the licences are still showing as being allocated to my laptop.

So, I guess the question is does the actual network device used have to be connected in order to acheive a proper deactivation?

thanks chaps

G.