With the release of PowerFactory 2016 the licensing system has been re-implemented and is based on a new technology since. Users of former versions of PowerFactory (15.x or previous), need to migrate their old licence when upgrading to PowerFactory 2016 or later.

You find the required Information to set up you workstation in the:

AdvancedInstallationAndConfigurationManual_en.pdf

within the help folder of the PowerFactory installation directory.