## Trial
By default a trial licence valid for 30 calendar days will be installed and used when Invantive Bridge is installed. The user will receive a licence error message after 30 days or when the data container was previously used with a trial licence.
# Permanent Licence
The recommended steps to install a licence key are:
- Place the text of the licence key in a file named `invantive.lic` in the folder `%USERPROFILE%\invantive`.
- A deviating licence location can be specified using environment variables described in [[License Service]].
- Restart Microsoft Power BI.
Alternatively, the file path of the licence file can also be specified using the connection string key `license-file` of the Power BI data source as in:
```
license-file=h:\invantive\invantive-bridge-license.txt
```
Other driver-specific configuration options such as the client ID or number of parallel requests (`requests-parallel-max`) can be configured in the connection string too.