Administrator’s Guide

Chapter 1
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Getting started 9
About the license key
FileMaker software comes with a unique, 35-character-string license
key. Do not lose this license key; it cannot be replaced. We
recommend that you keep the license key in a safe place in case the
software ever needs to be reinstalled.
You can find license keys in your volume license agreement, or in one
of these documents in your product box:
1 Service Directory, License Keys, and Proof of Purchase
1 License Key Information
Important You must enter the license key during installation or the
software will not install.
The license key ensures adherence to the single user license
agreement, which generally allows for use of one (1) copy of the
Software on a single computer at a time (refer to your Software
License). If the license key is invalid or if another copy of the
application installed with that same license key is running on the
network, the FileMaker
Server application displays an error message
and does not start.
To install FileMaker Server on multiple computers, you must have a
unique license key for each installation, or obtain a volume license.
You must license one copy of FileMaker
Server for each computer.
Updating the FileMaker Server license
If you want to upgrade from a trial version of FileMaker Server, or
from FileMaker
Server to FileMaker Server Advanced, you must
update your FileMaker
Server license key.
To update the FileMaker Server license:
1. In FileMaker Server Admin, connect to the FileMaker Server that
you want to update:
1 Windows: In the Console Root, click the FileMaker Server node
and choose
Action menu > Connect to FileMaker Server. Then click the
server you just connected to and choose
Action menu > Update
FileMaker Server License
.
1 Mac OS: Choose Server menu > Connect to FileMaker Server, select
the server, then click
Connect.
2. In the Update FileMaker Server License dialog box (Windows) or
the Update FileMaker License area of the Summary view (Mac
OS),
enter the information required, then click
Update (Windows) or Update
License
(Mac OS).