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Have your license activation code (EID) ready.

Active EPLAN Software Service (ESS) ensures prioritized access to global support teams if a hardware failure requires an emergency license reset.

To avoid licensing lockouts or broken activations, ensure you meet the following baseline requirements before touching the software:

The tool is often found in the ELM\Eplan Rehost directory of the installation media.

Notify all engineers to log off and check in their borrowed licenses. Stop the ELM Service on the old server. Use the ELM configuration tool to return the network EID. Install the latest ELM version on the new server.

If prompt by User Account Control (UAC), click to run as administrator. Step 2: Select the Return Option

EPLAN Rehost is a lightweight, portable utility designed to manage EPLAN product licenses. Unlike traditional software that requires complex installations, EPLAN Rehost is portable, does not require installation, and can be operated by simply double-clicking the file or using the Windows "Run" command. This portability allows administrators to carry the tool on a USB drive and use it on different computers, including those without an internet connection.

Moving a Virtual Machine (VM) hosting ELM to a different host or modifying hypervisor virtual resource allocations

No. You must use the . EPLAN explicitly states that changing versions of the Rehost program between individual process steps is not possible.