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About the Sage license server

Configuring your Sage license server

After you decide on the machine that will act as your Sage license server, you need to activate your product licenses. The licenses give you and other users access to the various modules of Sage Estimating, and they determine the number of license "uses" (that is, the number of users who can use the software concurrently).

Sage Estimating automatically retrieves license information from Sage every day. As you purchase or remove license activations, the Sage license server automatically updates this information in your system. You can also update the licensing information from Sage on demand.

Note: We recommend that you use the same computer for both the license server and the SQL Server instance.

Before you start

Make sure you have an active Internet connection.

To activate your Sage Estimating license:

  1. On the machine designated as your license server, open the License Administration window.

    Click Start > All Apps > Sage Estimating > License Administration.

  2. Check that computer named in the License server box is the designated license server.

    If License Administration is not pointing to the correct server, click Change server, and then enter the correct computer name or IP address of your license server.

  3. In the Registration Information section, submit your registration details as follows:

    1. Click the Edit registration information link.

    2. In the Sage client ID box, type your client number.

    3. In the Registration name box, type your registered company name exactly as provided by Sage.

    4. Click [OK]

      If the activation was successful, the Licensed Modules grid displays the modules and number of uses that you have purchased. Your license server is now ready to serve licenses to your Sage Estimating users.

      If the activation was successful, the Licensed Modules grid displays the modules that you have purchased.

Important! Licenses are granted to the specific computer where the licenses were initially activated. If you need to move your Sage Estimating server to a different server, you need to first deauthorize the licenses on the License Information tab on the old server before you can activate them on a new server.