Office 2010 Activation

I’ve got the same problem. I haven’t had a chance to use the TP much so far and also just tried accessing the help feature today for the first time. I’m trying to load help from MS Office Online, and the loading animation bounces back and forth but never loads. The status at the bottom says that it’s connected to Office Online but between this and the activation link not working I’m not convinced that the beta is properly detecting or at very least accessing my internet connection.

Update: I practiced a little patience this time and didn’t click the link for local help content. After a couple minutes it times out and decides that it’s not connected. This while happily browsing the internet from the same PC. I’ve turned my firewall off in case there was any funny application blocking going on but there shouldn’t be any reason why Office can’t detect that it’s connected to an active internet connection.

First you have to stop the service : Office Software Protection

Then run x:\Windows\System32\OSPPRUN.exe (x can be your C: or other driveletter you have installed windows on)

You will have a prompt.

Enter these command followed by an enter like shown below, go to next step

>Initialize (enter)

>Open (enter)

>GetInstalledSkuIds (enter)

0. 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a (deze is het ID van Office 2010)

1. 26adec89-edf3-4adc-a3fc-c865f1a9f71f

OK.

> GetInstalledAppIds 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a (enter)

0. 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663

OK.

(You will get something that looks like this)

> GetLicensingStatus 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a (enter)

SkuId = 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a

eStatus = SL_LICENSING_STATUS_IN_GRACE_PERIOD

dwGraceTime = 1D 23:37

dwTotalGraceDays = 30 days

hrReason = 4004F00C

qwExpiration = 2010/10/31

OK.

(What you are now going to do is set AppID and SkuID for Office 2010 to enable again 30 days before activation. That gives you another 30 days to test. Mostly the IDs are the same, if not please copy and use yours

> Rearm 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a 1 (enter)

OK.

>close (enter)

>Initialize (enter)

>open (enter)

You can enter the command below to check out how many days you have left (See dwGraceTime):

> GetLicensingStatus 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a (enter)

SkuId = 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a

eStatus = SL_LICENSING_STATUS_IN_GRACE_PERIOD

dwGraceTime = 29D 23:37

dwTotalGraceDays = 30 days

hrReason = 4004F00C

qwExpiration = 2010/10/31

>quit (enter)

You are able to use it again for 30 days. Have a lot of fun with testing Microsoft Office 2010…

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