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title: "Online EMS license activation to a HASP key"
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<span style="color: #000000">To activate licenses based on the new licensing schema, you will receive an email, which contains the product key(s) for the activation. The email also includes steps for activating your product key(s). You can choose online or offline activation. The online activation requires an Internet connection and a HASP-key needs to be connected to the machine where the activation will be done. The offline activation doesn't require an Internet connection, but you will need to generate a request file (C2V-file) and upload it to License Activation Portal. After uploading the file, you will receive a response file (V2C-file) which can be activated to a HASP-key without an Internet connection.</span>

<span style="color: #000000">This article describes how the Online activation is done, for the Offline activation see this article "</span>[<span style="color: #000000">Offline EMS license activation to a HASP key</span>](https://go.docs.blancco.com/wiki/spaces/KB/pages/11632897)<span style="color: #000000">".</span>

<span style="color: #000000">**Note!**</span><span style="color: #000000"> For the Online activation you will need:</span>

- <span style="color: #000000">Windows operating system</span>
- <span style="color: #000000">HASP HL drivers. Drivers can be downloaded from </span>[<span style="color: #000000">Gemalto download site</span>](https://supportportal.thalesgroup.com/csm?sys_kb_id=61fb0ee1dbd2e78cfe0aff3dbf9619ab&id=kb_article_view&sysparm_rank=2&sysparm_tsqueryId=0be7773ec35c9d905626176ce001314d&sysparm_article=KB0018320)[<span style="color: #000000">.</span>](https://supportportal.thalesgroup.com/csm?sys_kb_id=61fb0ee1dbd2e78cfe0aff3dbf9619ab&id=kb_article_view&sysparm_rank=2&sysparm_tsqueryId=41beac91db02d41091a9742339961902&sysparm_article=KB0018320)
- <span style="color: #000000">32-bit Java</span>

1. <span style="color: #000000">Plug in HASP-key to the computer where licenses will be activated</span>
  1. <span style="color: #000000">If you have not activated licenses before on the computer, the system will install drivers for the HASP-key. Please wait until the drivers has been installed</span>
2. <span style="color: #000000">Access the License Activation Portal </span><span style="color: #000000">(the link is in the email)</span>
3. <span style="color: #000000">Log in by using your unique product key found in the delivery email</span>
4. <span style="color: #000000">Choose "Online activation"</span>
  1. <span style="color: #000000">If you are missing the latest run-time environment you should see "</span><span style="color: #000000">Download and install the latest RTE installer by clicking here: EXE"</span><span style="color: #000000"> message on the screen.</span>
  2. <span style="color: #000000">Click on the "EXE" to download and save the latest RTE</span>
  3. <span style="color: #000000">Open "Command Prompt" as an administrator</span>
  4. <span style="color: #000000">Navigate to the folder where you saved the RTE installer</span>
  5. <span style="color: #000000">Run command "haspdinst.exe /i" to install the RTE (without quotation marks)</span>
5. <span style="color: #000000">From the "Key Activation" window, choose "Existing Key" and your HASP-key and click "Activate"</span>
6. <span style="color: #000000">Once the activation has been completed, you should see message "License activated successfully on key XXX"</span>

<span style="color: #000000">To check the license details on your HASP-key, follow instructions provided here: </span>[<span style="color: #000000">How to check license information from a HASP-key after migrating it to EMS licensing?</span>](https://go.docs.blancco.com/wiki/spaces/KB/pages/11634293)