Client of mine, got production line from China. As SCADA, there is WinCC traditional, V7.4 SP1. The Microsoft Windows is 10 Professional with Chinese language pack.
At the beginning, I thought, that WinCC ASIA was installed. It turns out that it was WinCC Europe installed only with Chinese language.
Because of problem with HDD, I decided to install fresh copy of WinCC and Windows 10 with English language pack.
I install Windows 10 Professional (English) and add also Chinese language pack (only as additional language) and Bulgarian keyboard.
Simatic WinCC V7.4 SP1 was installed with English and Chinese languages. I move the licenses from the original operator station to the new one.
It was BIG surprise, because of the hieroglyphs into the Text Table and the name of the PDL pictures, WinCC (or license service) require that a USB dongle with the licenses must be place and the WinCC went into demo mode.
The original WinCC operator station works without USB dongle! Somehow our Chinese colleagues succeed to cheat the WinCC license service.
Does someone knows how it is possible to use WinCC project with Chinese symbols without USB dongle?
The only information I found is: Can use ASIA license for for non-Asia region?
https://sieportal.siemens.com/en-ww/sup ... ion/268968
Thank you in advance!
Svetozar Yolov
