[ISS Support Case] Aveva Citect "Deployment is enabled but no project has been deployed".

Description

I am having an issue deploying projects to our server/clients. When I attempt to deploy a new version, The server/clients are having a problem loading the new deployed version. The Runtime manager will say the status is "stopped" and when I press "Start All", I message will pop up saying "Deployment is enabled but no project has been deployed". I can confirm the project has, in fact, been deployed. I can see the deployed version has changed. In order for the Runtime manager to load the deployed version, I have to go into the "Computer setup wizard" and just click through the setup wizard by pressing "next" until I get to "Finish". I don't have to change anything in the setup wizard, when I get to the "Project setup" window it already has the new project version selected. Once I press "Finish" at the end of the setup wizard, I open the Runtime manager and it will load the new deployed version. The new deployed version will load BUT a message will appear saying " No protection key found. Press OK to run in Demo Mode?" When the project loads, I don't have any data exchange to/from Citect. All of the values are #COM. If I deploy a previous version of the Citect project, It works perfectly without issue.

• Author: Kevin Modlin
• Published: September 4th, 2026

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