After installing Office 2010 Service Pack 2, you may receive the following error when attempting to Internet activate Office 2010:
This activation error is currently being investigated. To activate Office 2010, please use one of the following workarounds:1. Activate Office 2010 by using OSPP.VBS.a. Open an administrative command-promptb. Run one of the following command-lines based on your Operating System:x86cscript "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /actx64cscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act2. Open any Office 2010 program using Run as Administratora. Go to Start | All Programs | Microsoft Officeb. Hold down the 'Shift' key and right-click any Office 2010 Program (ex. Microsoft Word 2010) and select Run as administratorc. Follow the prompts to internet activate3. Change the UserOperations key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform to have a value of 1. Can automate this by running the following from an elevated command prompt:reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\officesoftwareprotectionplatform /v USEROPERATIONS /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
After running this command, open any Office 2010 program and follow the prompts to internet activate.Note - Setting UserOperations to a value of 1 permits administrator-privileged license operations including Internet or telephone activation by standard users.
4. If using a volume license version of Office 2010, use KMS activation instead of MAK activation. For further information on KMS activation in Office 2010, please refer to the following Microsoft articles:Plan KMS activation of Office 2010http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff603508(v=office.14).aspx
Deploy volume activation of Office 2010http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624357(v=office.14).aspx