Your program license has expired.

Recently a customer of us received a message that their license has expired. This message is shown when you connect to an Nav database from the Development Environment. The message looks similar like this:

Textual: Microsoft Dynamics NAV Development Environment
Your program license has expired.

However the customer wants to update the license with a fresh one but how to accomplish this because you can’t connect to your Nav database? The very first thing to do is to not connect to the database so that you won’t receive the message. Steps:

• Open Development Environment and don’t connect to a database
• Go to Tools > License Information and press Change.
• Now select a new valid license.
• Now connect to your Nav database and Upload the fresh license into your database.

Note: in order for the license to be effective in the Windows or Web client you need to restart all servicetiers that are connected to your corresponding database.