Is it possible to serve Creo 8 licenses from a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine?

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September 5, 2021
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Our team would like to begin using Creo 8 but I've been unable to upgrade our license server to support this version. Our license server is running on a Windows Server 2012 R2 machine and it appears that the new license server (Flexnet 11.17.1.0) required for Creo 8 doesn't support this operating system. Has anyone managed to work around this problem?

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haizhang

16-Pearl

Hi，

The final solution is upgrade Windows server to 2016 or 2019, which can guarantee to get official PTC technical support in any case you get license server problem.

As a short-term work around you can try to install 11.17.1.0 directly or install 11.16.2.1 instead. NOTE: this is only for a short term work around, and please do enough test. Also think about final solution.

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ptc-198068

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Thanks for your reply. We will certainly look to upgrade our server in the future but it might take some time. I've tried installing those two Flexnet versions as a short term solution but in both cases the installer hangs at the point of reading our license file (or connecting to the existing license server). I assumed this was due to incompatibility with Windows Server 2012 but might something else be causing this installation problem?

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LukaszMazur

16-Pearl

You might also install/update Visual C++ Runtime Libraries. I recently did a test install of 11.17.1.0 on Windows 7 and I had to install Visual C++ 2013 and 2015 libraries (both x86 and x64), but that's what helped me to run this specific Flex version.

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haizhang

16-Pearl

If the installer not woks, please also try to install Lmgrd version by referencing the Manual installation Suggested Technique as show:

Download link:https://www.ptc.com/support/-/media/support/refdocs/Creo_Illustrate/5,-d-,0/PTC_LMS_Download_121640.pdf?sc_lang=en

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LukaszMazur

16-Pearl

It's kinda hard to reference this manual installation technique, since the article has been retired and it doesn't seem to be a newer/alternative version of it: