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Activation

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- [Instructor] Now that we've completed our SOLIDWORKS PDM Database and Archive Server installation, including the SQL server, let's go ahead and initiate the SOLIDWORKS Network License Server. So we can find that by going down to our Start menu, scrolling down to SOLIDWORKS Tools, and you see here I've got SOLIDWORKS Network License Manager Server for 2017. I'm going to go ahead and turn that on. It says here that this network license doesn't exist yet for the serial number because we have to activate it. So I'm going to go ahead and activate it now. This is all done over the internet. You can also load a file, but typically now everybody does this through the internet. So you just say go ahead and click Next. Again, we're not going to do it through email, we're going to do it automatically through internet, so we keep that option checked, similar to all the other activations and deactivations we do with SOLIDWORKS products. We have to put in our contact info, as always, in case…

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