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Specifying the license keys
When installing components that require licenses, provide the license keys in any of these ways:
 Click Specify license keys manually and click Next. You will be able to type the license keys or
import them from a text file.
 Click Use licenses from the following license server, specify the name or IP address of the license
server or the management server, and click Next.
 Click Back up to Online Storage only and click Next. No license keys will be used. An agent
installed without a license key can perform backup only to Acronis Online Backup Storage.
The software automatically assigns the currently available licenses to the components.
The Licensing window shows how many licenses are required and how many of them you still need
to assign to the components. To add one or more licenses, click Add license. You can provide trial
license keys, full license keys, or their combination.
To view or change the assignment of licenses, click View license mapping. In the License Mapping
window, you can set up which component will use which license, as follows:
1. Click a machine in the Machines view.
2. Under Components, examine which components on the machine require licenses.
3. Under Used Licenses, assign or reassign the licenses for these components by selecting or
clearing the corresponding check boxes.
2.1.4 Installing the agent through Group Policy
You can centrally install (or deploy) Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Agent for Windows onto machines
that are members of an Active Directory domain, by using Group Policy. Group Policy is a mechanism
available in Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and later Windows server operating systems.
In this section, you will find out how to set up a Group Policy object to deploy Acronis Backup &
Recovery 11 Agent for Windows onto machines in an entire domain or in its organizational unit.
Every time a machine logs on to the domain, the resulting Group Policy object will ensure that the
agent is installed on the machine.
2.1.4.1 Prerequisites
Before proceeding with agent deployment, make sure that:
 You have an Active Directory domain with a domain controller running Microsoft Windows
Server 2003 or later.
 You are a member of the Domain Admins group in the domain.
 You know the license key or the name or IP address of a machine where Acronis License Server is
installed.
 You have a machine running Windows, with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Management Console
is installed on the machine.