How to transition JMP® to a centralized license method post-installation (for Microsoft Windows only)

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If users are licensing JMP locally on Windows and you want to move the license to a centralized location, some cleanup might be required to keep JMP from referencing the locally stored license file (jmp.per) in the following locations:

• the user folder (%APPDATA%\SAS\JMP<PRO>\<version>\JMP.PER)  
• the installation location C:\Program Files\SAS\JMP<PRO>\<version>\

For each user at your site, remove or rename the existing jmp.per file from the above locations.

To centralize your license so that JMP references the jmp.per file outside of the locations mentioned above, take these steps: 

1. Create a jmp.per file by installing JMP on a test machine and licensing JMP by using the Open License prompt. The jmp.per file is stored in the JMP installation directory: C:\Program Files\SAS\JMP<PRO>\version\JMP.PER
2. Copy or save this jmp.per file on a network share.
3. Open Notepad and create a file named jmp.pfs.
4. In the jmp.pfs file, add the following lines:
   
      Preferences(
              File Location Settings(
                       License File Path( "\\network-share-path\...\jmp.per" )
              )
      );
    
5. In place of the network-share-path above, enter the path to the jmp.per file (the save destination in Step 2) as the argument.
6. Copy the jmp.pfs file to the %APPDATA% directory for the user. (refer to the user directory path in the first bullet point above.) You can copy the file either manually or by using a script. Note: For existing JMP users, this process overwrites their JMP preference file.

Note: When your site renews JMP for a specific version, you must repeat Step 1 above to generate a new jmp.per file. The new jmp.per file replaces the older jmp.per file that you saved in Step 2. 

For more information, see the JMP Deployment Guides.

[Previously JMP Note 66458]