{"id":5790,"date":"2023-01-27T15:56:34","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/?p=5790"},"modified":"2024-07-04T15:00:38","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:00:38","slug":"auto-activating-firewall-renewal-license-keys-starting-february-22-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/2023\/01\/partner-program\/auto-activating-firewall-renewal-license-keys-starting-february-22-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-Activating Firewall Renewal License Keys \u2013 Starting February 22, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of our channel-best commitment, we constantly strive to remove friction for partners and make it easy to do business with us. That\u2019s why we\u2019re streamlining the way to activate renewal licenses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Effective February 22, 2023, all Sophos Firewall renewal licenses will be auto-activated once the order is processed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This means:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Manual license activation is no longer required for Sophos Firewall renewals<\/strong> as our system will automatically activate the renewal licenses. This will align with the existing practice for Central product renewals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>For renewals, there will be no license key,<\/strong> the license schedule will simply state the start and end dates for each product purchased.<\/li>\n<li>There will be <strong>no changes to who gets the license schedule.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These changes apply to all Sophos Firewall renewal licenses across all platforms, whether XG, XGS, Virtual, or Software.<\/p>\n<p>This is a major advancement towards efficiency, time-saving, and protecting customers. Some of our distributors have already been following the process described above for several months. In these cases, nothing will change for you.<\/p>\n<p>Please reach out to your local Sophos representative if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophos Firewall renewal license keys will be auto-activated once the order is processed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":3250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[13,245,149,17],"coauthors":[64],"class_list":["post-5790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-partner-program","tag-pricing-licensing","tag-renewals","tag-sophos-firewall","tag-sophos-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/featured-image-sophos-pp-icons-partner-services.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5792,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5790\/revisions\/5792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5790"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnernews.sophos.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}