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.

Yes.  Also, keep in mind that when this happens that you can login to your My Account area of the SF website and do a manual deactivation from the web (which may be what you were referring to in your earlier post not that I think about it ).  But yes, the license binds to a MAC address of the NIC of your choice.  If that NIC is not available when SF attempts to verify licensing, then it will recognize it as an invalid license file.