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How to perform an uninstall-upgrade to Office 2010
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over 3 years ago
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EricAshton
There are a few upgrade options available when planning to move to Office 2010 from a previous version. Microsoft has a technet article that touches on these various options here: Plan an upgrade to Office 2010 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...
How to automate the uninstallation of Office 2003 products
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over 3 years ago
by
EricAshton
When automating the uninstallation of Office 2003, we can call msiexec to perform the work from a command line. Example syntax: msiexec /x {GUID} /qb *note* You could use /qb for an automated uninstall with a progress bar, or use /qn for a totally...
How to automate the uninstallation of Office 2007 products via command line
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
EricAshton
When automating the removal of Office 2007, we need to call setup.exe to perform the work. Because Office 2007 is a multi-msi based product we cannot use msiexec for the installation, nor the uninstallation of Office 2007. http://technet.microsoft...
How to obtain and use Offscrub to automate the uninstallation of Office products
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over 3 years ago
by
EricAshton
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Sometimes you cannot uninstall the existing 2003, 2007 or 2010 Microsoft Office suite on your computer by using the Add or Remove Programs feature in Control Panel of Windows XP or the Programs and Features feature in Control Panel of Windows Vista/Win7...
Getting invalid product key error when trying to input MAK key for Volume License version of Office 2010
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over 3 years ago
by
EricAshton
There are a couple common scenarios that occur that can cause an invalid product key error with Office 2010 volume license edition when attempting to install the VL MAK key. 1. After purchasing a Volume License edition of Office 2010, when...
Activate Office 2010 KMS host via phone activation
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
EricAshton
Sometimes it is required to activate the Office 2010 KMS host in a disconnected environment. Here are the steps required to activate Office 2010 KMS via the phone. *NOTE* If you don’t already have Office 2010 KMS installed please install...
Managing Office 2010 Activations using the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT 2.0)
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Sean Fr - MSFT
If you are deploying volume editions of Office 2010 using KMS or MAK activation, the Volume Activation Management Tool (VAMT) 2.0 can be used to manage activation for these products. In this video I walk you through using VAMT 2.0 to activate Office 2010...
Multiple Exchange accounts created in Outlook 2010 with existing Outlook profiles after upgrading from an earlier Office version using a custom MSP
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Eric Ellis [MSFT]
7/19/2011 UPDATE: This issue has been addressed in the Service Pack 1 (SP1) version of the Office Customization Tool (OCT). To prevent multiple Exchange accounts from being created in one profile when you upgrade users to Outlook 2010, you must...
Office 2010 trial now available
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Sean Fr - MSFT
Trial versions of Office 2010 Home and Student and Office 2010 Professional are available for download today. Get your copy here: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/try/try-office-2010-FX101868838.aspx?WT.mc_id=MiG_HomePage
Installing Office 2010 on a terminal server from MSDN/Technet and ensuring you are not missing the Outlook online archive and additional features
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over 4 years ago
by
EricAshton
How to install Office 2010 media from MSDN/Technet on a terminal server and enable the missing features: How to obtain an MSDN Office 2010 key that will allow installation on a terminal server. 1. If you are an MSDN Subscriber, visit your MSDN Subscriptions...
When attempting to install Office 2010 from a precached source the following error occurs: “The language of this installation package is not supported by your system”
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
EricAshton
This error can occur when attempting to upgrade from Office 2007 to Office 2010 and you are installing Office 2010 from the MSOCache. To reproduce this behavior: Install Office 2007. Then use the following procedure to deploy the local installation...
Guidance on installing a second KMS host for Office in an environment that has an existing KMS host for Windows.
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over 4 years ago
by
Sean Fr - MSFT
Volume license editions Office 2010 support KMS activation. If your environment has an existing KMS host for activating Windows you have a few ways of activating Office 2010 using a KMS host: Use your existing Windows KMS host and add Office KMS support...
Unable to activate Office 2007 over the Phone. "Installation ID invalid"
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over 5 years ago
by
EricAshton
Issue: Unable to activate over the internet. "Product has been activated too many times" Attempting to activate over the phone then also fails with "Installation ID is invalid" Resolution: -Step 1 Goto start, and then search or run...
How to chain additional addins, or programs when deploying Office 2007. Chaining getting started tabs in this example.
Posted
over 5 years ago
by
EricAshton
We often have customers that want to add additional programs or addins with the Office 2007 installation. Often they will try to use the Office Customization tool to perform this function. Unfortunately the OCT function, “add installations and run programs...
Office 2007 - Deploying Additional Languages
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over 5 years ago
by
EricAshton
Today we will discuss the various methods available to deploy additional languages for Office 2007. Key ---------- MLP = Multi Language Pack LP = Language Pack When talking about adding additional languages to Office 2007 there are two topics to...
Deploy Office 2007 via GPO startup script
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over 5 years ago
by
EricAshton
Occasionally we have customers that want to deploy Office 2007 via a GPO startup script. We have a technet article that discusses this process. Technet Article: Use Group Policy to assign computer startup scripts for 2007 Office I thought however...
How do CMW files in Office 2000-2003 work? How do maintenance MSP files work in Office 2007-2010?
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over 5 years ago
by
EricAshton
Here is a quick walk through showing the keys that are used to control the CMW and custom MSP files to determine what settings will take effect and if they had been run for the current user or not. For the purpose of this walkthrough I have created this...
How to convert an Office GUID, or Office patch GUID to a compressed GUID.
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over 5 years ago
by
EricAshton
The following steps are taken to convert an Office GUID to its compressed counterpart: Here is the uncompressed GUID for Office 2003 Professional. {90110409-6000-11D3-8CFE-0150048383C9} Here is compressed GUID for Office 2003 Professional. 9040110900063D11C8EF10054038389C...
How to deploy a patch using a startup script via GPO
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over 5 years ago
by
EricAshton
If we are going to deploy a patch using a startup script we want a script that will only install the patch if the patch is not already installed. In this walkthrough we are going to determine if the patch is already installed by having the script...
When attempting to activate Office 2010 receiving error "An unspecified error has occurred. Your request cannot be processed at this time. Please try again later. (0x80070001)"
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
EricAshton
During activation of Office 2010 product you may experience the following error: If you receive this error it may be caused by missing the following reg key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1...
Office 2010 KMS installation and troubleshooting
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
EricAshton
Step 1 . Identify one computer to be your KMS host. The host computer must be running one of the following operating systems: Windows 7 (Volume License) Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) *Windows 2008 is not supported *Windows...
When activating Office 2010 you receive the ERROR CODE: 0x80070005
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
EricAshton
While attempting to activate your Office 2010 clients in your environment you find that some of your machines fail to activate against KMS with the following ERROR CODE: 0x80070005. If you run OSPP.VBS to attempt activation and you may receive an error...
Office 2010 Service Pack 1 and version 2 of the Office 2010 policy templates/OCT files now available for download
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Eric Ellis [MSFT]
The 32 and 64-bit versions of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Office 2010 are now available! Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2010 (KB2460049) 32-bit Edition http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26622 Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office...
How to install Office 2010 with a MAK key and have it perform an automatic activation attempt after install (Part Deux)
Posted
over 3 years ago
by
Eric Ellis [MSFT]
In a previous Office Deployment Support Team Blog post , we explained how to automatically activate Office 2010 by using a customized config.xml file and setting element/property, AUTO_ACTIVATE. This blog post will expand on that a bit and explain...
When launching an Office 2010 application you receive “This copy of Microsoft Office is not activated”
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Sean Fr - MSFT
If you are running a volume licensed edition of Office 2010 and it needs to be activated, you may see this message when you open any Office 2010 application: This message means Office is failing to activate against a KMS host on your network. KMS activation...
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