Generation of enterprise-wide licenses in a customer environment

A method of remotely enabling feature and/or capacity activation in an enterprise network, the enterprise network comprising distributed at least first and second computational server components, the method comprising:

• providing, via a remote feature activation system comprising a microprocessor, a customer communication device with a first set of enterprise licensable features and/or capacities and a second set of non-enterprise licensable features and/or capacities, wherein the enterprise licensable features and/or capacities, but not the non-enterprise licensable features and/or capacities, are allocable by the customer communication device among both the first and second server computational components of the enterprise network and wherein the first and second sets of enterprise and non-enterprise licensable features and/or capabilities are hardware and/or software capabilities or features;
• receiving, at the microprocessor of the remote feature activation system, a first allocation of the first set of enterprise licensable features and/or capacities between both the first and second server computational components of the enterprise network;
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• generating, with the microprocessor of the remote feature activation system and based on the received first allocation, first and second electronic license files reflecting the first allocation, wherein the first license file is for the first server computational component and the second license file is for the second server computational component, wherein the first and second license files comprise persistent license files and do not require periodic updates from a master license server to enable the first and second server computational components of the enterprise network to continue operating even if communication is lost with the master license server;
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• transmitting the first and second license files to the master license server, wherein the master license server distributes the first license file to the first server computational component and the second license file to the second server computational component, respectively, wherein the distribution of the first and second license files to the first and second server computational components of the network causes activation of the first set of hardware and/or software licensable features and/or capabilities in the first and second server computational components.