Using professional license on enterprise version

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Due to a particular situation I have a machine where there can only be VS 2015 Enterprise.

The company also refuses to give me the license for it as I'm an external dev - it is installed but not licensed.

I can and would buy my own Professional license out of my own pocket, but not the uber expensive Enterprise.

Does anyone know if it is possible to activate an Enterprise version with a Professional license, of course with the Enterprise functionalities locked?

What I have tried:

I haven't tried anything as I don't want to inadvertantly lock the system status, since I probably can't rollback, and I don't want to raise too many red flags in the monitoring system if I don't know exactly what I'm doing.

Posted 23-Nov-20 22:40pm

den2k88

Updated 23-Nov-20 23:15pm

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Richard Deeming 24-Nov-20 4:49am

I'd be inclined to tell the company to provide you with a usable development environment, otherwise you can't do any work for them.

But still bill them for your time, obviously. :)

den2k88 24-Nov-20 4:54am

Situation is complex: the environment is not on VS at all, it's on an IDE for a very well known embedded system.

That IDE sucks. It *is* workable but to find answers that with VS+VAX it takes me 30 seconds, it requires me half an hour with the right IDE.

So I have no pressing need, the customer is stingy and my company is trying to win them because they are OEM manifacturer for a large market we're not into.

I cant fsck up in any conceivable way.

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-23T23:15:00

No, you can't activate an Enterprise install with a Professional licence key: if you could, how many Enterprise editions do you think they would be able to sell?

You need to talk to your supervisor / customer contact (depending on your employment situation) and discuss the problem - if you are being paid to do work that requires a tool, it needs to be supplied or paid for!

If it's on an IDE that they provide and expect, then that's part of the job, irrespective of the "suckiness" of their chosen IDE, that is what they require you to deliver. And if you are working on their site with their equipment then their corporate rules apply: you installing "banned" software is not a good idea.