Honeywell customers and integrators express severe frustration with Win-Pak support and product reliability, reporting that support refused assistance for Win-Pak 4.7 licensing after hardware failure.

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        "excerpt": "Win-Pak 4.7 to 4.8 is generally an upgrade path Honeywell supports, but since they've told you 4.7 is unsupported you'll likely need a dealer to process the version migration and reissue the license. Licenses for Win-Pak aren't sold direct to end users in most regions, so a security vendor or Honeywell dealer is probably your route for both the upgrade and the new license tied to the new hardware.",
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        "excerpt": "Contact the integrator who had installed the system - they should have access to Honeywell licensing portal, and your license should have a couple of activations left, unless the license was already moved.",
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