Licensing of Oasys Software

• Activating your Licence
  
  • Shared Licences
  • Manual Activation
• Activation via group roll out to multiple machines (Mail Manager only)
• GSA SwitchKeys Utility (a small utility to allow those customers who have multiple variants of GSA shared licences to easily swap between them)
• Monitoring your company’s usage
• Returning your Licence Key - Important - This should be carried out when a machine is to be re-formatted or the licence moved to another machine
• Troubleshooting
  
  • Shared Licences

Oasys Software Ltd partner with Software key to provide a flexible yet robust method of licensing the various software products we develop. 

Upon purchasing any Oasys software product, you will be emailed a Key ID and Password. These two pieces of information are all you require when activating the licence on your chosen software package.  The licensing is web-based so you should ensure you have internet connection when carrying out any of the actions below. (Please contact us if you require manual activation)

Activating your Licence

• Ensure the program is closed. (For Mail Manager, this includes Outlook.)
• Go to the Start menu, and choose All Programs / Oasys [Program Name] / Manage Keys / Activate key
• When prompted, enter the Key ID and Password given in the email you will have received at purchase.
• If the activation is successful, the Licensing Details will be updated to show the registered company name, and allowed version number.

Shared Licences

For a shared licence, the "key" needs to be activated initially on all PC's that want to use the software. This is done in the same way as above.

When activating a Shared licence, there needs to be a free activation.  If you see the message 'No activations of this type available' you will have to wait for someone else to exit the program. 

Once the licence is activated on the PC, upon opening the program, our software will automatically check for a licence. If there is a free licence, it will just run without having to enter any activation details. When the software is closed the "key" is automatically returned to the server meaning another PC can then use the "key". Customers don't have to remember to manually return it. This is easier and less prone to keys getting locked on PC's and provides the flexibility of a shared licence.

Manual Activation

If you are asked for Response codes please check that you have an internet connection.  If this is not the problem, add https://secure.softwarekey.com as a trusted site. 

Activation via group roll out to multiple machines (Mail Manager only)

Oasys Mail Manager can be activated on multiple pc’s using a simple tool.  This will make activation of multiple copies much easier.  This method may be used in conjunction with administration files to ensure all machines are controlled centrally.

Open Windows explorer and navigate to a file called MSIConfigure.exe (see image below to provide location and the necessary file)

Open the file “msiconfigure.exe”.  This file can help you repackage an MSI installer file to include:

• Licence Key ID and password
• Provide group administration control if required (3.)

The Msi installer is now ready for deployment.  Deployment can be made via:

• Pc to Pc
• Use of Microsoft’s Group Policy Object tool
• Other Msi “push out” tools

Monitoring your company’s usage

To help you manage your licenses, we can identify individual activations by the machine name you use.  This enables us to assist you with licensing queries for specific machines and allows manual deactivation where a machine is no longer in use, but you haven’t been able to ‘Return’ the Key yourself.

Returning your Licence Key

Important - This should be carried out when a machine is to be re-formatted or the licence moved to another machine

The licenses can be returned to the web-based licence server to free up the "key" to be used on another PC. Otherwise the licence remains locked on the machine. 

This can be achieved by clicking (on the windows screen): Start / All Programs  / Oasys [Program Name] / Manage Keys  / Return key.

If the key is successfully returned to the server, the Licensing Details will be updated to show the remaining evaluation days. If the evaluation period has expired, the program will exit. (Some Oasys programs which allow operation as a "Viewer" or in "Limited Capability mode" without activation, will also exit, but can be re-started.)

To activate the licence on another machine or re-activate after formatting of a machine, please follow the steps mentioned above in the section “Activating your Licence”

Troubleshooting

Any problems will report an error message which will usually advise you to contact Oasys. The Customer Service team can check your status on the web server, update it appropriately, and advise you how to resolve the problem. Please email us a screenshot of the full error message to Oasys@arup.com.

Shared Licences

If an Oasys software product, using the shared licence, crashes, the licence key will not be returned properly, and will not be available for use on other machines.  If this happens, simply open and close the program again with a normal exit from the program and this will return the key to the licence pool. 

If using a shared licence and you see the message below, it is usually because the maximum number of users for the licence, have the program open.  If you don’t believe this is the case, please contact us.