Milestone XProtect Essential 2014 User Manual
Before you start
Activating licenses
XProtect® Enterprise 2014, XProtect® Professional 2014,
XProtect® Express 2014, XProtect® Essential 2014
Before you start
Trial mode
You are welcome to try out any of our XProtect VMS products for 30 days for free. You can download our
products via the XProtect Professional VMS Products installer which you can find on our download section on
the Milestone website at
The XProtect Professional VMS Products installer offers you a 30-day trial period to use XProtect Essential,
XProtect Express, XProtect Professional or XProtect Enterprise. To select a product, download the XProtect
Professional VMS Products installer and select one of the above-mentioned products once you launch the
Management Application for the first time.
Once the 30-day trial period have passed, you must purchase the software and activate the license for the
software to keep the system running.
Your system saves your configuration, and any recordings stored in the
trial version are not deleted.
Purchase
When you have installed the various XProtect VMS components, the surveillance system initially runs in "trial
mode" for 30 days. You must purchase and activate your license before the end of the trial period in order to
ensure that you have a continuously working system.
When you purchase an XProtect VMS, you receive a license file (.lic) which includes a Software License Code
(SLC). You must use this license file when you install your system.
Before you activate your licenses, you must add the Software License Code (SLC) to your Software
Registration Account withinIf you do not already have a My Milestone account, you must
create one).
When you have logged into My Milestone, go to Software Registration section of the website, select Add
SLC, type in the SLC > Save.