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The Management Service manages your SQL Safe license and receives requests from the respective Backup Agents to license your instances. 

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your licenses?

You may need to edit your current license if you exhaust your trial license, or if you need to replace it with one that allows you to license more instances.

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If you want to manage all registered SQL Server instances through the Management Console, you can upgrade the SQL Safe Lite Backup Agents to the enterprise version of SQL Safe.

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you upgrade

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the SQL Safe Lite license?

You can temporarily upgrade a SQL Safe Lite license to an enterprise edition license by installing a SQL Safe trial license. Note that, when the trial period has expired, your license will revert back to SQL Safe Lite.

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  1. In the Servers tree, expand the SQL Server Instances node, and then select the instance that is running the SQL Safe Freeware Edition Backup Agent.
  2. Click Enable Trial License  in the Backup/Restore Operation Status pane.

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the SQL Safe Freeware Edition?

You can upgrade SQL Safe Freeware Edition to SQL Safe enterprise edition by upgrading the Backup Agent on the corresponding SQL Server computer.

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  1. Navigate to the SQL Safe Agents  view.
  2. Right-click the target SQL Server computer, and then select  Install SQL Safe Backup Agent on the context menu.

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the license keys to a file?

  1. On the Tools menu, click  License Key Manager .
  2. Click  Save to File , and browse to the location to which you want to save the file.
  3. Enter the file name, and click  Save .

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