{"id":214,"date":"2010-08-06T15:16:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu:40006\/wlog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2010-08-06T15:16:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T19:16:16","slug":"volume-licence-activation-in-office-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Volume licence Activation in Office 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve built a .cmd script modeled on the sample provided by Microsoft for installing Office 2010 silently.\u00a0 It uses a MAK volume key and also does the activation after the install.\u00a0 There is a vbs script provided in the office installation for managing activation.\u00a0 I activate it by adding the following to my script:<\/p>\n<p>IF NOT &#8220;%ProgramFiles(x86)%&#8221;==&#8221;&#8221; (goto ACT64) else (goto ACT86)<\/p>\n<p>REM Attempt to activate the product<br \/>\n:ACT64<br \/>\ncscript &#8220;%ProgramFiles(x86)%\\Microsoft Office\\Office 14\\OSPP.VBS&#8221; \/act<br \/>\ngoto End<\/p>\n<p>:ACT86<br \/>\ncscript &#8220;%ProgramFiles%\\Microsoft Office\\Office 14\\OSPP.VBS&#8221; \/act<\/p>\n<p>I also found that there is a tool for computers to do remote activation on &#8211; the Volume Activation Management Tool.\u00a0 It only works with machines that allow remote wmi access, so it&#8217;s most useful in situations where you have already enabled this access via group policy to a number of machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve built a .cmd script modeled on the sample provided by Microsoft for installing Office 2010 silently.\u00a0 It uses a MAK volume key and also does the activation after the install.\u00a0 There is a vbs script provided in the office installation for managing activation.\u00a0 I activate it by adding the following to my script: IF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,77],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cs.toronto.edu\/~jhancock\/wlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}