Since the FTA Manager did find my activations, the next thing I checked was the time in my VM’s OS. If it hadn’t, I would then need to troubleshoot my VM’s network. Occasionally this error has appeared in the past, and the first thing I checked was to be sure the FactoryTalk Activation Manger on my virtual machine was finding the activations installed on my “host” system. After the RSLogix 5000 splash screen appeared, I received a notice from RSLogix 5000 saying it couldn’t find my FactoryTalk Activation (FTA.) I thought this odd as I knew everything was working just a few days ago… Once booted, I used the shared folders feature to copy the clients files to my virtual desktop and proceeded to open his ACD file.Īnd this is where things started to go wrong.

Boy was I wrong!īecause the client sent me an older v16 file, I fired up my Windows XP VMware virtual machine on which I have several RSLogix 5000 versions installed. It was a slow week, and I honestly didn’t expect looking over his files would take more than an hour or so. Last week a client sent me his RSLogix 5000 v16 file to review.