LicensesCollection

The LicensesCollection class is used to manage all of the licenses in all of the Licenses parent containers defined for a forest.

Syntax

public interface ILicensesCollection

Discussion

The LicensesCollection object is retrieved using the Cims.[LoadLicenses](../cims/loadlicenses.md) method.

Methods

The LicensesCollection class provides the following methods:

Method	Description
Find	Returns the specific parent container object from the collection of all parent license containers in the forest.
GetEnumerator	Returns an enumeration of Licenses objects.
GetLicensedCount	Returns the total number of licenses of the specified license type that have been installed.
GetUsedCount	Returns the total number of licenses of the specified license type that are currently being used.

Properties

The LicensesCollection class provides the following properties:

Property	Description
Count	Gets the number of license container objects stored in the Active Directory forest.
HasEvaluation	Indicates whether there are any evaluation licenses in the forest.
HasMachineLicense	Indicates whether any computer license is installed.
Item	Gets the parent license container object by index number.