https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Can-I-renew-my-license-without-causing-an-outage-to-my-users/m-p/320800#M6859 <P>You don't even need to run the utility. The proc setinit is included in the license file. Copy/paste, save as setinit.sas and run sas setinit.sas as the SAS install user.</P> Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:13:48 GMT Kurt_Bremser 2016-12-22T19:13:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Can-I-renew-my-license-without-causing-an-outage-to-my-users/m-p/320797#M6857 <P>Can I run the Renew SAS Software 9.4 Utility without causing an outage for my users? &nbsp;I plan to run the utility and then let the system reboot on the regular schedule so as to not affect my end users. &nbsp;Is this possible?</P> Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:43:31 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Can-I-renew-my-license-without-causing-an-outage-to-my-users/m-p/320797#M6857 lstafford 2016-12-22T18:43:31Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Can-I-renew-my-license-without-causing-an-outage-to-my-users/m-p/320799#M6858 <P>In a word yes. No outage is required.</P> Thu, 22 Dec 2016 18:54:20 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Can-I-renew-my-license-without-causing-an-outage-to-my-users/m-p/320799#M6858 SASKiwi 2016-12-22T18:54:20Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Can-I-renew-my-license-without-causing-an-outage-to-my-users/m-p/320800#M6859 <P>You don't even need to run the utility. The proc setinit is included in the license file. Copy/paste, save as setinit.sas and run sas setinit.sas as the SAS install user.</P> Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:13:48 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Can-I-renew-my-license-without-causing-an-outage-to-my-users/m-p/320800#M6859 Kurt_Bremser 2016-12-22T19:13:48Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Can-I-renew-my-license-without-causing-an-outage-to-my-users/m-p/320807#M6860 <P>BTW you can test this for yourself. After applying the licence, start a new SAS session like EG and run PROC SETINIT. You will see that the new licence is applied. There are some complications around SAS mid-tier apps where you need to update the licence in SAS metadata but even here no outage is needed.</P> Thu, 22 Dec 2016 19:52:57 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/Administration-and-Deployment/Can-I-renew-my-license-without-causing-an-outage-to-my-users/m-p/320807#M6860 SASKiwi 2016-12-22T19:52:57Z