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Important Notice for Act! Customers

 

Act! Licensing Software Update

We have recently been informed that an embedded third-party software component of Act! that facilitates licensing services is being discontinued by the manufacturer at the end of 2018. As of January 1st, 2019, depending on what version of Act! you are running, there will be necessary steps that need to be taken to ensure uninterrupted access. Read the statement from Swiftpage, here

As of January 1st, 2019, customers on Act! will no longer be able to:

  • Install Act! on new machines
  • Re-activate Act! on existing machines
  • Modify your user count
  • Make key modifications to existing machines (eg. Motherboard swap, network card swap)

If you make any of the changes listed above, your Act! product will fail to re-activate and you will lose access to the software completely.

 

*Note: If you are a NEW Act! customer (i.e. you are not upgrading from a different version), and you have purchased v21 on or after November 19th, 2018, you will NOT be affected by this issue.
 

Act! versions 17 and earlier are considered unsupported versions and version 18 will be unsupported from Nov 18th 2018, please refer to the obsolescence policy for your region below:

 

See below for the necessary steps for your version and the expected dates for updates

If you have any questions, or need any help, please contact GL Computing by clicking on this button:

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Licensing Software Update: v17 and earlier

Solution:

Because you are on a retired version of Act! you are no longer eligible to receive critical updates and enhancements. In order to ensure uninterrupted access to your product, you must upgrade to latest version of Act! by December 31st, 2018.

Licensing Software Update: v18.2

Solution:
 In order to ensure uninterrupted access to your product, it is strongly recommended that you upgrade to latest version of Act! by December 31, 2018.

Should you elect not to upgrade to Act! v21, we have decided to make available a one-time update for v18.x products that seeks to address this specific issue in January, 2019. We cannot and do not make any representations as to how long this one-time update will provide the functionality of Act! that you expect. Please note that this decision to provide you with the update in this instance shall not be precedent, or require us to provide, neither now nor in the future, any fixes for additional issues that may or will arise after the date of obsolescence as specified in the Act! Support Obsolescence Policy.

Update 7 for v18.2 is expected to be available on January 8th, 2019.

*This page will be updated with the download link, when available.

Licensing Software Update: v19, v20 and v21

Solution:
In order to ensure uninterrupted access to your product, you must apply the update provided before December 31st, 2018.

Update 2 for v21.0 is expected to be available on November 20th, 2018
 Update 8 for v20.1 is expected to be available on December 6th, 2018
 Update 9 for v20.0 is expected to be available on December 13th, 2018
 Update 5 for v19.2 is expected to be available on December 20th, 2018

*This page will be updated with the download link, when available.

 

GL Computing

Phone: +61-419-209-589

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