The technique, dubbed "rearm" as a nod to the command used in Windows, can be used up to five times. If users perform the rearm at the end of each day period, they can run Office for a total of days without having to supply an activation key. According to a Microsoft spokeswoman, who replied to questions via e-mail, the rearm feature is aimed at enterprise administrators who use a single copy, or "image," to deploy a supported operating system and accompanying software on hundreds or thousands of PCs.
As IT administrators prepare the image, however, the activation clock continues to tick down. By the time the image is copied to a company machine, the counter may have reached the point where the activation messages appear. The problem here is that Office is smart enough to know that you [first] installed Office in May, but now it's November. So when users first boot up Office, they see the red title bar telling them they haven't activated. This is not a good user experience.
Rearm lets administrators build the image, then as a final step, reset the activation grace timer. When users start Office for the first time, the grace timer begins, and users have 25 days before they get a dialog telling them they're not activated. The TechNet support document that explains rearming Office says much the same thing, though in much denser prose. According to a recent entry on the "My Digital Life" blog, the rearm command works on the RTM, or "release to manufacturing" build that Microsoft used to produce the final copies of the suite.
Although Microsoft has yet to launch Office at retail or offer it to consumers, it has posted a free day trial of Office Professional Plus on its TechNet site.
The company has also hinted that it will post trial versions of one or more retail editions this summer after Office goes on sale. Trial versions, including the one now available, come with limited-time activation codes. I am assuming that one can activate MS Office Home and Student product key till I have an active program that works on one of my computers.
Is that not so? I activated recently MS Office Home and Student then lost it with the system 3 times on same computer with Windows 7 64 bit OS till the hard drive no longer functions. The hard drive won't "kick in". I don't have time for a while to get a new hard drive here in Bogota due to pressure at work. I received a message saying that I had activated as many times as I was allowed.
A retail copy of Office Home and Student can be installed and run on three different computers at the same time. The number of allowed installations is for Office currently running on active systems.
As in your case since the issue is with the hard drive of the computer, you should be able to reinstall Office on another PC. However there are exceptional cases where you can re-install the software on another computer but may not be able to activate it. And as a follow-up question: There is the possibility to backup an activation file and save it back after a new Office installation.
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Companies which treat customers with disdain are on a road to perdition. I was able to activate Microsoft Access with a volume license today via the standard 'attempt to activate my product online' checkbox.
Got also the feedback from a reader, that setting date and time back to brought back the possibility to activate Office Neither nor work anymore. I regret I bought , foolishly thinking I'd be safe for good, but that still resides on my active laptop yet. This is SO the last office product I ever bought.
I shall get a good freeware now, thanks for nothing. I've had trouble activating Office several times. Activation didn't work from the GUI, but in my case it always worked from the command line. Your email address will not be published. Born's Tech and Windows World. Skip to content.
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