How-to Upload the FLF license file

Run the ‘Business Central Administration Shell’ as Administrator. You can find this ‘tool’ on the server where the Business Central Server Instance is running. It looks like this:

Now type:

Export-NAVServerLicenseInformation -ServerInstance BC160

to view the current license information:

If you have a new license file you can upload this by using the Cmdlet:

Import-NAVServerLicense -ServerInstance BC160 -LicenseFile "C:\Users\Administrator\Documents\BC16License.flf"

Finally restart the service mentioned. In this example this is BC160. This can also be accomplished by PowerShell:

Set-NAVServerInstance -ServerInstance BC160 -Restart

Please take into consideration that all users, services connected to this service will loose the connection to BC16 (Business Central 2020 Wave 1). Don’t run this cmdlet in a production environment if you don’t know what the real impact is!