Hi,
We recently had a customer who performed an Off-Box upgrade from 7.5 to 8.0. They asked us to help migrate their products, however we encountered an issue migrating their Licenses due to a new feature called License Rules that exists against the License Type in 8.0.
The steps below are what we did to identify this. I've attached all screen shots and scripts for reference to the botton of this article.
However, if you're just after the solution then after we raised this with Support, a fix was created and is available for 8.0 machines that are on HF6+.
The e-track is: 4073198. The fix is due to be released ~26.03.2017.
Import / Export Utility
What we found with this approach is that the new license rule was not populated on the imported licenses and thus would not associate with the Product. See the screen shot below, effectively against License rule would be the option "New Rule*".
We then tried the following steps.
Import / Export Utility + Data Connector
The thought behind this was to use SQL to generate a unique guid for the License rule element in the hopes that it triggered the correct action and associated a License Rule.
As stated above, the work around is either manual intervention or to install the fix mentioned above.
Thanks,
Kevin