Activate Your License
When you buy a new license, you need to activate it.
You do this in Sophos Central (unless a Sophos Partner handles license activation for you).
When you buy an upgrade, it may be activated automatically or you may need to activate it.
Note If you are starting a trial of Sophos Central, you
don't need to activate a license yet. You do this only when you upgrade to a paid license.
To activate a license, do as follows.
How the "Change" option works
A customer orders 50 licenses for one year. Six months later, they place another order for 50 licenses for one year.
If the customer selects Change, we do as follows:
- Add the new licenses to the older ones. The customer now has 100 licenses.
- Add the remaining time on the older licenses (50 licenses x 6 months = 300) to the time on the new licenses (50 licenses x 12 months = 600). The total is 900 months.
- Distribute the time over all 100 licenses. Each user’s license now runs for 9 months from the date when the key was applied (and the expiry date is adjusted accordingly).
The customer now has 100 licenses that will all expire 9 months from now.
In most cases the existing license expiry date gets extended but do check the new expiry date shown.