Hi,
Our department has been running Domino 7 for the last 4 years and we are ready to switch to 8.5.2, so I downloaded the Domino trial version (C1SC3EN.exe) to test.
I thought I would install it on the same server which I used to first test our version 7 Domino server. That server had not been used for the last 2 years, so I booted it up and uninstalled Domino 7, rebooted it and installed the Domino 8 trial on it. I rebooted and the Domino server didn’t start. Instead, it presented me with a Domino server error: “An error occurred during license use management initialization. Ensure that you are running Domino with a valid license file.”
I didn’t know what to do, so I searched the Web for this type of error and I came across an IBM web site stating to reinstall Domino, which I did, and rebooted and still had the same error message. I searched the net again to find another post which mentioned it had something to do with the clock. I looked at the clock on that server and found that it was dated 2003. We hadn’t used that portable server for at least 2 years, so the battery must have gone dead. So I reset the clock, uninstalled the Domino 8 trial and rebooted. I went into the registry and deleted any reference I could find to either Notes or Domino and rebooted. I reinstalled the Domino 8 trial and rebboted, but the same problem reappears with the same error message.
I searched the net again and found another IBM forum stating to look for a file named domino8.lic in the data directory. I don’t have a file by that name in that directory.
This is where I am right now.
I would appreciate all the help I can get to get this trial Domino going.
Thanks
Richard
