You might need to unassign a license from a service if the service becomes obsolete or if you want to discontinue a service. You might want to discontinue a service if you are using more CPUs than you are licensed to use.
You can use the Administrator tool or the
infacmd isp
UnassignLicense command to unassign a license from a service.
You must disable a service before you can unassign a license from it. After you unassign the license from the service, you cannot enable the service. You must assign a valid license to the service to reenable it.
You must disable the service before you can unassign the license. If you try to unassign a license from an enabled service, a message appears that states you cannot remove the service because it is running.