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Are there some USB over Ethernet products you might suggest?
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Are there some USB over Ethernet products you might suggest?

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Again, contact the vendors and see what they recommend &nbsp;- I don't know your software and even if you told us what it was odds are we haven't worked with it before and don't know what the USB keys' specific requirements are - the VENDOR does.
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Again, contact the vendors and see what they recommend  - I don't know your software and even if you told us what it was odds are we haven't worked with it before and don't know what the USB keys' specific requirements are - the VENDOR does.

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We ended up just using another machine. There were very few of the products that still used the USB eys and it wasn't worth the extra investment!
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We ended up just using another machine. There were very few of the products that still used the USB eys and it wasn't worth the extra investment!

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We are going to setup a Hyper-V machine on a Windows 2012 server. The VM will also be 2012. Is there anything special I need to do to make usb ports available to the VM? I ask this because several of our products use the USB key to activate over the network.
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We are going to setup a Hyper-V machine on a Windows 2012 server. The VM will also be 2012. Is there anything special I need to do to make usb ports available to the VM? I ask this because several of our products use the USB key to activate over the network.

Assign a USB for Licensing Server in Windows 2012

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.

Hyper-V

Microsoft Virtual Server was a virtualization solution that facilitated the creation of virtual machines on the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. Virtual machines are created and managed through a web-based interface that relies on Internet Information Services (IIS) or through a Windows client application tool called VMRCplus. Features included Linux guest operating system support, Virtual Disk Precompactor, symmetric multiprocessing (SMP), x64 host operating system support, the ability to mount virtual hard drives on the host machine and additional operating systems support, including Windows Vista, and a volume shadow copy writer.