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Licensing, Cloud and Web Services Wiki SES Activation
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      • New Administrator's Guide
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      • How to check out licenses for offline machines
      • Troubleshooting Activation for SES Licensing
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    Subscription Entitlement Service Enablement

    The Subscription Entitlement Service is Bentley's new process for product activation, enhancing our users' digital workflows and improving our licensing capabilities with features such as:

    • License alert notifications when you are approaching a custom usage threshold
    • Replacing site activation keys with user validation, enhancing security around your Bentley licenses and subscriptions

    Traditionally, product activation has been through an activation key that an Organization distributed to all of its users. With the Subscription Entitlement Service, product activation is managed by user sign in through the CONNECTION Client, which is installed on each machine that uses Bentley applications.  This offers a more secure and manageable system as it offers usage alerts, notifying your users when they are about to reach a certain usage limit set by the Administrator.

    InformationImportant: At this time, not all Bentley applications are compatible with the Subscription Entitlement Service.  Support for the Subscription Entitlement Service  will be extended as new application versions are released.  Please check back as new updates of your applications become available.

    User Instructions

    Product Activation

    • How to activate products under Subscription Entitlement Service: Step-by-step instructions for activating Subscription Entitlement Service products on client machines
    • Overview of the Bentley Licensing Tool: Instructions for viewing activation statuses, reserving licenses, importing license files, and configuring proxy settings for use with Subscription Entitlement Service products
    • How to select feature levels under Subscription Entitlement Service: Specific activation instructions for OpenFlows (Hydraulics and Hydrology) products
    • CONNECT Center Overview: Description of the CONNECT Center portal, including instructions for finding your administrator (point 3 under CONNECT Center Welcome Banner section)

    Error Messages

    • Access Denied
    • CONNECTION Client Not Found
    • Learn More - Sign In Required
    • License Limit Reached
    • No Entitlement
    • Offline Usage

    Administrator Instructions

    • Subscription Entitlement Service for Administrators - Getting Started: Initial instructions for Subscription Entitlement Service administration
    • Entitlement Management Configuration: Overview of all settings in Entitlement Management
    • Subscription Entitlement Service FAQ: Answers to common questions concerning Subscription Entitlement Service administration
    • How products are licensed under Subscription Entitlement Service: Explanation of how entitlements are obtained and what settings affect the process
    • How to restrict access to specific products under Subscription Entitlement Service: Instructions for assigning product access to specific groups of users
    • How to check out licenses from Entitlement Management: Instructions for generating license files for use on computers without Internet access
    • SELECTserver/Subscription Entitlement Service hybrid environment FAQ: Answers to questions that may arise when running both SELECTserver-based and Subscription Entitlement Service-based products
    • How to enable and configure license alerting for products: Instructions for managing product usage via the License Alerting feature
    • Subscription Analytics: Overview of a reporting portal that consolidates usage from both SELECTserver and the Subscription Entitlement Service
    • How to ensure usage from only one user on a shared workstation: Instructions for configuring group policy to sign off disconnected users which could be logging Bentley product usage

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