• How to discover Office and Windows KMS hosts via DNS and remove unauthorized instances

    Posted over 3 years ago
    by Eric Ellis [MSFT]}
    When troubleshooting KMS configuration and activation issues, our customers are often surprised to find unexpected Windows or Office KMS hosts in their environment. By default, Windows and Office clients discover KMS hosts via DNS and a related _vlmcs...

  • 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...