Standalone Install picking up locked settings.

This one has me stumped.  We have an admin image install that gets rolled out to everyone along with a locked settings file.  One the whole, this works well for us.

We have an isolated case where an engineer is using a laptop with a 12month term standalone license for a special project - SW has been installed as an individual install, not by the admin image.  His computer ID does not appear in the admin options tool list of computers.  His options are getting locked.

He is on the same network, and he does have a desktop on the same domain that is an admin image install with locked settings.  I presume this has something to do with it.

Hopefully someone out there has an idea on what it might be    thankyou.

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