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...

  This blog will cover techniques on how to identify and resolve Office installation failures. The techniques described can be applied to the installation of Office 2003-2010, and Office patches. ENABLE VERBOSE LOGGING The first thing to do when...

  KMS host key = This key is obtained from the VLSC. This is the key that you would use during the install of the KMS host when setting up a Office 2010 KMS server KMS Client Key = This is a generic key that is hardcoded into all of the Office 2010...

Thinking about deploying Microsoft Office 2010 in your environment? Curious about the how, when, and whys of a customized deployment of Office? Do you want your installation of Office to go as easily and smoothly as possible? If the answer to any of...

If you are considering the deployment of a 64-bit version of Microsoft Office 2010, it is important to understand the differences between the 32 and 64-bit versions, and be aware of the deployment considerations. See the following blog posts and TechNet...

  By default when you install a volume license version of Office 2010 it will not ask for a product key. All Office 2010 client VL builds are pre-PID’ed with a single global product key. When you install Office 2010 VL without a product key it automatically...

When launching Office 2010 applications, a message appears indicating that Office is not activated. Attempts to activate Office may result in the following error: " Error 0xC004F074: The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could...

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...

Use the following steps to see detailed information about what type of activation your Office 2010 installation us using and what the status of your activation is. Open an administrative level command prompt. Navigate to the Office14 folder: 32bit Office...

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...

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...

  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...

While attempting to activate your Office 2010 in your environment you find that the machine fails to activate with the following error: These errors can indicate a permissions issue in the registry and/or other operating system issues. If...

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...

  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...

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...

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

Issue: 0xC004F038 The software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activated. The count reported by your Key Management Service (KMS) is insufficient. Please contact your system administrator. Possible Causes: This issue occurs...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

  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...

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...

  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...