Activating Using a Corporate Account

Starting from Parallels Desktop 18, the Activation using corporate account (sometimes referred as SSO activation) option became available.

This option works best for Medium and Enterprise size organizations that have an identity provider (e.g., Entra ID) and rely on it to automate applications license management routines. With SCIM integration (optional) licenses from contractors and people who left the company and removed from the identity provider directory will be automatically revoked. There is also an option to automatically revoke licenses from people who are not using the product for a long time.

The license key is also not used in this scenario, so there are less chances for it to be misused.

There are three major steps to enable this option:

1. This option works only if you purchased a special license type. Please check your license certificate for details and contact your sales representative if you have questions.

2. IT team has to setup integration between your identity provider (Entra, Okta, Ping Identity, or others that support SAML 2.0 and SCIM 2.0) and Parallels My Account, following the instructions in this section of the guide. At this step, you may also want to consider dividing your Parallels Desktop users into user groups. If there is no guide for your identity provider, it is recommended to follow the one for Entra ID.

3. To provide your employees with the best user experience use the deployment capabilities described in this guide or simply share this link with users: https://parallels.com/directdownload/pd?experience=sso.