


The planning phase can begin now, it is never too early to start planning! The migration phase starts the day of renewal, continuing 30 days past renewal. The typical timeline for transition I like to break into three parts. There are several different ways to approach the migration, with a bit of planning and coordination it can be done quickly with no down time. If you are getting ready to migrate your existing environment, take a deep breath, it is not as difficult as you may think. Autodesk has some great FAQs or reach out to Autodesk or your Autodesk Partner for more information. The intent of this article is to address the technical side of this transition, so I will not dive any deeper into the trade in offer, and its intricacies. “At your next renewal before August 7, 2023, trade in one multi-user subscription for two single user subscriptions at a cost consistent with what you pay today.” As of this writing, the offer currently reads as: With that in mind, migrating those multi-user licenses to named user licensing with the 2:1 offer in most cases is your best path forward. Subscriptions with multi-user will retire and can no longer be renewed after August 7, 2022. The Transition to Named User offer from Autodesk is a 2:1 trade in offer that you can take advantage of when renewing existing multi-user licenses. One of the biggest questions most have during this transition is from a technical standpoint, how do I change my existing environment? In this article we will address that question in detail. And most recently extended to allow customers the option to renew existing multi-user licensing and make the transition to named user at a later date. Initially set to begin May 2020, then pushed to August 2020. Due to challenges from the pandemic, the timeline has been extended several times. We are currently in the middle of the Transition to Named User rollout. The latest change is the retirement of multi-user network licensing and migrating existing multi-user licenses to named user licensing, known as the Transition to Named User. As part of this transition, standalone license activations based on a serial number were changed to named user licenses based on an individual’s Autodesk ID. Starting with retiring new maintenance plans and migrating existing maintenance plans to subscription plans.

Autodesk has made several changes to their software licensing model over the past few years.
