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RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Dustin Taylor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:14:06 GMT

Awesome! Glad you got it working :)

URGENT: Cannot activate license

Greg McGuffey — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:14:06 GMT

I'm attempting to install and activate SF on terminal server (windows 2003). The program bombs immediately. I deactivated my license(s) before attempting this (my dev machine and my backup dev machine both took a dive). See attached error dialog...

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

David Daragon — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:01:13 GMT

Hi,

I created an user on the database server with rights and I instal again StrataFrame and now it works. StrataFrame works on windows server 2003 by TS.
Great !

Thanks for your helps

Regards

David

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

David Daragon — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:28:39 GMT

Thanks Dustin.

I'll try and I'll let you know.

David

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Dustin Taylor — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:16:44 GMT

The simplest way is to just run the install again, but if you didn't have permissions to install that portion the first time you likely won't this time either. The first step is to make sure you have administrator priveldges on your machine, then run the install again to deploy the database :).

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

David Daragon — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:34:04 GMT

Hi,

I have no StrataFrame Database on my server and I can't create it. I did a repair of StrataFrame and no possibility to create it so how can I do ?

Regards

David

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Dustin Taylor — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 08:17:55 GMT

Yup, sounds like permissions on that folder are peventing StrataFrame from creating the connections.dat file from being created (that is the file that stores the information you enter into the connection wizard.) Check those out (see the post Ivan linked for more info) and let us know :)

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Ivan George Borges — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:32:18 GMT

Hi David.

It sounds like you are facing a permissions issue.

Have a look at this post: http://forum.strataframe.net/FindPost15562.aspx

Let us know if you get it going.

Cheers.

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

David Daragon — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:44:45 GMT

Hi,

I succeed by copying the files which works on my computer to the server.
But at each start, I have the DataBase Connection Wizzard that appears.
Can I desactivate it ?

Thanks in advance.

David

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

David Daragon — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 03:49:57 GMT

Hi,

I created the folder MSEnvShared\AddIns and copied the StrataFrame2008.Addin

And when I start Visual Studio 2008 I have these messages.

Why when I install SF on my computer with Windows XP it works correctly and when I try on the server with windows 2003 server nothing works ??

David

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Ivan George Borges — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:52:29 GMT

Try creating the MSEnvShared\AddIns by hand and copy the StrataFrame2008.AddIn into it.

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

David Daragon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:30:18 GMT

I did that. I set the option "Show hidden files"

but no folder MSEnvShared in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\

just "Office" one. Is it normal ?

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Ivan George Borges — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:25:43 GMT

OK, then it should be C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns.

Just checking... the Application Data folder is usually a hidden file. Have you changed your Windows Explorer to show Hidden Files under Options?

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

David Daragon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:19:32 GMT

Hi Ivan,

I have windows server 2003.

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Ivan George Borges — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:07:43 GMT

Hi David.

Have you got Vista on your machine?

If so, the path will be:

C:\Users\MyUser\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns\

Hope it helps. ;)

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

David Daragon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:34:23 GMT

Hi,

I have the same problem like Greg but I have no folder called C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared.

Where must I copy the StrataFrame2008.AddIn ?

Thanks

David

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Trent L. Taylor — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:37:09 GMT

[quote]The first had a power supply blow...smoke, sparks, sizzling noises...very exciting[/quote]

Nothing like the smell of a small electrical fire to wake you up in the morning, boy :D

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Greg McGuffey — Mon, 12 May 2008 12:59:33 GMT

Hey, I forgot to thank you guys! Thanks! :D

It's been a rough couple of weeks. Both my dev computers blew up...both quite literally. The first had a power supply blow...smoke, sparks, sizzling noises...very exciting. Unfortunately, it also toasted the MB. A bit more than a week later, a lighting strike got through my APS surge/lighting strike protector and my batter backup and another surge protector and toasted the MB on the other dev computer. The parts for the first computer weren't in yet, so I was scrambling to get SF setup on a TS (which is working very nicely, thanks to your help).

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Trent L. Taylor — Sun, 11 May 2008 21:27:42 GMT

Cool :cool:, I figured that might get you going.

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Greg McGuffey — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:15:13 GMT

OK, after a bit of playing around, I figured it out. Your idea worked Trent.

I updated the Addins file with:

[codesnippet]<Assembly>[full path to assembly without quotes]</Assembly>[/codesnippet]

I.e.
[codesnippet]<Assembly>C:\Documents and Settings\gregm\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns\MicroFour StrataFrame AddIns.dll</Assembly>
[/codesnippet]

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Greg McGuffey — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:01:27 GMT

How do I define the assembly used? I.e. what is the tag and what rules apply?

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Greg McGuffey — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:54:30 GMT

Ivan,

Since I'm using the latest build, which support 2008, I just copied the StrataFrame2008.addins file to C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns\ folder. The version is already fine (the post was for folks moving to 2008 before the first SF build that had that support built in).

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Trent L. Taylor — Fri, 09 May 2008 09:33:28 GMT

One other thought here too, Greg. If you are having issues with the GAC on this machine, you can move that MicroFour StrataFrame AddIns.dll file whereever you need to and then just change the XML text inside of the AddIns file to point to the desired location of that file. Just another thought. :)

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Ivan George Borges — Thu, 08 May 2008 21:56:50 GMT

Just to see if I got what you did.

So you copied the

C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns\StrataFrame.AddIn

C:\Documents and Settings\MyUser\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns\StrataFrame2008.AddIn

And then, opened the [b]2008 AddIn[/b] that you just copied over and changed the two version entries to 9.0.

Is that right?

RE: URGENT: Cannot activate license

Greg McGuffey — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:22:02 GMT

Yeah, I found that. It was right were you said it would be (but I missed it because...well...I just missed it! ;) ) I placed in in the "C:\Documents and Settings\gregm\Application Data\Microsoft\MSEnvShared\AddIns" folder. The file is just an XML file, so I opened it and the version is already fine.

However, this actually just tells VS to load a class as an addin. I was wondering if this was the afore mentioned Microfour StrataFrame Addin.dll (or if I need to do something else).

It tries to load the addin, then shows a message box that states there was an unspecified error, do I want to remove the addin and have it renamed.