All MicroStrategy server products require activation within 30 calendar days of installation (7 days for evaluation edition). This licensing technology ensures that installation of MicroStrategy server products are authentic and have been legitimately licensed. Server Activation registers each server installation with MicroStrategy and locks the installation to a specific machine.
The Server Activation website allows customers to perform this server activation, to deactive server installations that are no longer being used and to monitor all of their active server installations. Customer’s designated Technical Support Liaisons will also see their activated servers available for selection when logging new support cases, providing an easy way to specify where a problem is occurring and allowing our support engineers to quickly access information about your hardware configuration that may be relevant in troubleshooting the problem.