How to Trial Enterprise Edition with Existing Business Edition Per-user License

If you have an existing Parallels Desktop for Mac Business Edition setup where end-users activate their copies of Parallels Desktop using Single Sign-On (SSO), you can concurrently trial the same setup on the Enterprise Edition. You will have to take the following steps:

1. Contact your sales representative using the details provided in Parallels My Account and request a trial license key. If your My Account page does not mention a specific sales representative, use the Request Trial form on this page;

2. Register the received key in My Account;

3. On the side of your organization's identity provider (IdP), register a new group and include in it trial users;

   1. If your IdP supports group hierarchy, make sure the trial group is a child of the main Parallels enterprise app user group mapped in My Account as part of the integration (i.e., your mapping should be Parallels app registered with your IdP <- Parallels Desktop users group <- Enterprise Edition trial users group) and add the Enterprise Edition trial users to it; Warning: For hierarchical setup to work correctly, theSAML token exchanged during the SSO authentication process must include the group identifiers for all the groups a user belongs to. See step (3) in theMapping existing groups... section of the respective chapter, as seen in Microsoft Azure/Entra ID.

   2. Otherwise, connect the trial group directly to the Parallels enterprise application and make sure to include the trial users in the main Parallels Desktop users group as well (i.e., your mapping should be Parallels Desktop app registered with your IdP <- Parallels Desktop users group AND Parallels Desktop app registered with your IdP <- Enterprise Edition trial group), make sure to include trial users in both user groups;

4. Make sure the end users with trial accounts have activated their copies via SSO;

5. Explore the Parallels Management Portal capabilities.