Mahesh Ji
Once the equipment is created from asset the user status to be defined with initial status when the asset is created so that it can't be used in any maintenance order.
Could you please elaborate bit more please.
Whereas in second case is except Basis Team & Badi in the thread http://scn.sap.com/thread/1276184 any other way through user status we can handle the situation.
For using Customer mould I have defined a new category there is no issue in that scenario
Thank you