Thanks again to everyone that helped me understand the technical failures on this issue. I met with Meraki today. They confirmed everything in this forum. They basically said this is their company policy and they don’t plan on changing it. It’s their way of making sure customers don’t have non licensed hardware. Still seems ridiculously heavy handed towards the small/medium businesses that are honest. It has shaken my faith in a company that I really liked. Large enterprises are exempt because they spend enough money to get Enterprise Agreements with much more associated leniency and customer support. I wish they would do this for all customers. To resolve the issue, we will be moving to per device licensing. I don’t like the idea of managing 125 licenses and renewals, but it’s better than the risk getting shut down again. We will also be moving back to cloud authentication to simplify the alerts and avoid being locked out of the dashboard again.
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