Evaluation Period Management for NCache Professional

NCache Professional comes with all features during the initial evaluation period of 60 days. Once this evaluation period expires, you can either purchase NCache license or request an extension to your evaluation period, by getting the Extension Key from Alachisoft Sales. Please send an email to sales@alachisoft.com (or to your account manager if you are already in touch with him/her) and ask for an extension key. You will be provided with a 30-day extension key.

Register for Free Evaluation

  • Search for "Windows PowerShell" on Windows Start menu, right-click on the search result and select Run as Administrator.

  • Execute the following command where the -Key parameter is the evaluation key obtained from Alachisoft Sales.

 Register-NCacheEvaluation -Key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -FirstName John -LastName Smith -Email john@alachisoft.com -Company Alachisoft

You can choose to extend this evaluation period for another 30 days using evaluation keys obtained from Alachisoft.

Evaluation Period Info

Evaluation period status is displayed with the following PowerShell cmdlets shipped with NCache. Search for PowerShell, right-click on the search result and select Run as Administrator to execute these cmdlets.

  • Get-NCacheVersion

Get NCacheVersion Result Window

Evaluation Period Extension

Using Windows PowerShell

  • Search for "Windows PowerShell" on Windows Start menu, right-click on the search result and select Run as Administrator.

  • Execute the following command where the -ExtKey parameter is the extension key for the machine already in evaluation mode.

Register-NCacheEvaluation -ExtKey XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Important

The 30-day extension is valid from the original installation date and not from the day you are trying to extend it. So if you waited for 15 extra days after the initial 30-day evaluation period to extend it, you will only get an extension for 15 extra days instead of 30.

Using Command Line Tool

NCache is shipped with a command line tool, NEvalExtension.exe, to allow extending evaluation period. Note that for the following steps, you must have obtained the extension key from Alachisoft Sales.

  1. Search for Command Prompt on Windows Start menu, right-click on the search result and select Run as Administrator.

  2. Through command line, go to directory %NCHOME%/bin/NActivate.

  3. Execute the following command, where the extension key from Alachisoft is provided with the /k parameter.

    NEvalExtension.exe /k XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
  4. On successful extension, you are prompted with a success message "NCache evaluation period has been extended."

See Also

Licensing Model
Activate License
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