FME Licensing Error After ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5 Upgrade — Advanced ArcObjects Not Found

[JuneAcosta]

Has anyone run into licensing issues with FME after upgrading to ArcGIS Enterprise 11.5?

My FME Workbench (2025.1.1.0) workspace was working as of Friday. After our Enterprise upgrade over the weekend, I can no longer read a feature class from our enterprise geodatabase due to a licensing error.

FME reports that an Advanced ArcObjects license is not available, even though:

• My ArcGIS Enterprise account is an Administrator

• My ArcGIS Pro license is Advanced and active

• I can connect to the same enterprise geodatabase in ArcGIS Pro without any issues

Log snippet:

The ArcObjects license 'Advanced' is being selected from the ESRILicenseInfo ArcObjects call
The Esri Product license used by this machine does not include licenses for the 'Advanced' licensing level

Not sure if this is related to the Enterprise upgrade or just bad timing, but the change happened immediately afterward.

Wondering if anyone else has seen this with 11.5 or knows of any compatibility considerations between ArcGIS and FME that I should check.

[JavierML · Accepted solution]

Hi @JuneAcosta , 

I managed to update Enterprise 11.5 and FME 2025 continued to work normally. 

My first guess would be that FME can't reach the license anymore. Did you change the paths? Or is the old enterprise still installed in the same server? 

If you could, try installing and licensing a ArcGIS Pro on the same server and check if FME can reach find the license for ArcGIS Pro. When it can't, the problem lies more on FME than on ESRI.

Other than that, I unfortunately can't say much. I would stick to the troubleshooting guide from SAFE and directly contact SAFE Support on this matter

[JuneAcosta]

That helped point me in the right direction — thank you. Since you mentioned FME might not be reaching the license, I tested it by updating Pro by pointing to our AGOL licenses instead, and that ended up fixing the issue. I’ll dig into why the ArcGIS Enterprise license connection was lost at another time.

Really appreciate the response!