The PMDF installation procedure asks you to enter your PMDF licenses (you should have received these licenses when you purchased PMDF). If you are upgrading PMDF, check to make sure that you have PMDF licenses that are valid for the new version. You will need a PMDF-MTA-NT license, plus licenses for each additional PMDF layered product that you are installing (for example, PMDF-LAN-NT).

PMDF license information is stored in files with names of the form product-name.license, which are located in the PMDF table directory. You will have a separate license file for each PMDF product that is licensed for the system. For example, a PMDF-MTA license would be stored in a file named C:\pmdf\table\PMDF-MTA-NT.license, and a PMDF-MSGSTORE license would be stored in a file named C:\pmdf\table\PMDF-MSGSTORE-NT.license (if you have PMDF installed on the C: drive).

A PMDF license file has the following format:

Issuer:Process Authorization Number:auth-number Product Name:product-name Producer:Innosoft Product Release Date:release-date Product Token:token Checksum:checksum

where auth-number, token, release-date, and checksum are specific to your PMDF license, and product-name is the product name (for example, PMDF-MTA-NT, PMDF-DIRSYNC-NT, PMDF-LAN-NT, PMDF-POPSTORE-NT, PMDF-MSGSTORE-NT, PMDF-XGS-NT, or PMDF-TLS-NT).

If you are updating an installation of PMDF, check to make sure that the release date for each product (the value on the fifth line of the file) is later than the release date of the version of each PMDF product you are going to install. PMDF licenses allow for the operation of PMDF software that is released before the license release date. New PMDF product licenses are issued when your maintenance contract is renewed, not when new versions of software are released.