Create Your Subscription
An organisation typically requires only one Zee Drive subscription. So, if your organisation already has a Zee Drive subscription then skip this section, unless you are looking to set up a new subscription for testing purposes.
After you follow the steps below to create your subscription, Zee Drive will be activated on your computer and the Administration Console will be available from the Windows system tray.
Subscriptions are created in an initial trial state. Trials are free, but have limitations;
A maximum of 5 licences of each licence type
Valid for 7 days after which they will expire
The aggregated amount of data all users on the trial can upload or download through the mapped drives in any given 24 hour period is limited to 5,000 file uploads or 3GB of data and 10,000 file downloads or 5GB of data
If you exceed the trial data limits in a 24 hour period, your Zee Drive network drives will be temporarily disabled until the 24 hour period has passed.
Trial limits are removed by purchasing a subscription and nominating your trial subscription be upgraded to a paid subscription.
Zee Drive subscriptions are created via the Zee Drive wizard. The subscription, and all the configuration data associated with it, are provisioned in the Zee Drive cloud service. No on-premises infrastructure is required for your Zee Drive subscription.
Download the latest version of the Zee Drive executable to your computer and then double click the zeedrive.exe executable you downloaded to launch the wizard. The welcome page of the wizard will show. Click the Next button to continue
You'll be prompted to enter your username and activation code, but, as you don't have a subscription yet, you won't have these. So click the blue link "click here to set up your trial" to proceed with setting up your subscription
After clicking the blue link from the previous step you should be on the Set Up Trial page. Click Next to continue
Zee Drive needs you to authenticate with Microsoft 365 so it can determine your associated Microsoft 365 tenant. Your Zee Drive subscription will be linked to the tenant. Click the blue authenticate link to pop-up the authentication window
Authenticate with Microsoft 365 via the pop-up window. After successful authentication the pop-up will close automatically
A green tick mark will show along with the Microsoft 365 tenant name your new subscription will be associated with, in this example, it will be thinkscapedev. Click Next to continue
After your subscription is set up, the details will be emailed to you. If you prefer for the email to be sent to an alternative address than the Microsoft 365 account you authenticated with in the previous steps, you can do so by unchecking the box and entering a different email address. When you're ready, click the Setup Trial button to start setting up your subscription
The busy indicator will show during the set up process
After your subscription has been set up, you will receive an email with the details and your activation code. The activation code is also shown in the wizard. You can take a copy of it here by clicking the blue link. Click the Continue button
Now your trial is set up, Zee Drive will walk you through the process to activate your computer. Your username and activation code will be populated in the boxes for you so just click the Next button to continue
You'll need to authenticate again so click the blue authentication link to pop-up the authentication window. After successful authentication you will see the green tick mark. Click Next to continue
You're ready to activate. Click the Activate button
The busy indicator will show whilst Zee Drive installs on your computer and activates
After successful activation, Zee Drive will start-up on your computer. You can click the Exit button to close the wizard
You may notice a pop-up notification from your system tray area as Zee Drive starts up
Let's check your new subscription! Click the blue Z icon from your Windows system tray
The Zee Drive Administration Console will pop-open. Click the "What do you want to do?" button then click the "View a summary of your subscription" option
Your subscription details will be shown, which include your 8 digit subscription ID, that the type of the subscription is a trial, and the expiration date of the trial
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