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Licenses which are installed for use in WinCC are transferred from the storage medium to a
local drive and are unregistered on the storage medium.
Note
Furthermore, the licensee confirms that the software (SW) contains licensed software by
Microsoft Corporation or its subsidiaries. Thereby, licensee agrees to be bound by the terms
and conditions of the appended license agreement between Microsoft SQL Server and end
user, and to fulfill same.
Note
It is not allowed to run WinCC in process mode without a valid license.
Cumulating licenses
The cumulation of more than one license per component subject to a license is only possible
for the following licenses or licenses of the following options:
● WinCC Archive licenses
● WinCC/DataMonitor
● WinCC/WebNavigator
● WinCC/WebUX
● WinCC/IndustrialDataBridge
● WinCC/PerformanceMonitor
● SIMATIC Information Server
Other licenses cannot be cumulated.
Demo Mode
If a license is missing for one or several components, WinCC will run in demo mode. WinCC
also switches to demo mode when the maximum authorized number of process tags or archive
tags is exceeded in a project.
In Demo mode, you can use the WinCC software fully for a maximum of one hour. After this
period, the operation of WinCC violates the license agreements.