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A trial license enables you an unlimited number of deployments on up to five machines for 15 days.

No trial license for Acronis Universal Deploy is available.

To upgrade from the trial to full version you do not need to re-download the software. Simply buy

the full licenses and import them to the license server. Acronis Snap Deploy 4 will start using a full

license as soon as the corresponding trial license expires.

1.6 Upgrading to Acronis Snap Deploy 4

To upgrade from Acronis Snap Deploy 3 to Acronis Snap Deploy 4, upgrade both the licenses and the

software components.

1.6.1 Upgrading licenses

To upgrade the licenses of Acronis Snap Deploy 3, obtain the necessary number of upgrade licenses

and import them to the license server.

You should obtain one upgrade license for Acronis Snap Deploy 4 (ASD4) per each license for Acronis

Snap Deploy 3 (ASD3) that you have. After you import the upgrade licenses to the license server, you

will be able to perform deployment to any machine by using Acronis Snap Deploy 4.

It does not matter whether the ASD3 license is itself an upgrade license for an even earlier version.

The following table illustrates how the various combinations of licenses will be upgraded. Use this

table to calculate the number of upgrade licenses that you need.

You have

You obtain and import

You now can

ASD3 full license
Available

ASD4 upgrade license

Perform deployment to any target machine

ASD3 full license
Assigned to Machine1

ASD4 upgrade license

Perform deployment to any target machine

ASD3 upgrade license

License(s) for an earlier version
Available

ASD4 upgrade license

Perform deployment to any target machine

ASD3 upgrade license

License(s) for an earlier version
Assigned to Machine1

ASD4 upgrade license

Perform deployment to any target machine

No license

ASD4 full license

Perform deployment to any target machine

1.6.2 Upgrading components

Install the components of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 over those of Acronis Snap Deploy 3.

If all components of Acronis Snap Deploy 3 are installed on the same machine, simply run the setup

program of Acronis Snap Deploy 4 on that machine. During installation, you can add the upgrade

licenses.