Friday, November 12, 2010

Office 2010 Activation with KMS

To activate Office Suite and Standalone application 2010 using KMS, you can do the following:

Install Microsoft Office 2010 KMS Host License Pack to your KMS Host:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=97b7b710-6831-4ce5-9ff5-fdc21fe8d965&displaylang=en

It will ask you to enter your Office 2010 KMS Volume License Key

Once entered you are ready to go - note, you need as least 5 clients try to activate Office 2010 before those clients are able to activate via KMS

From the client, you can either wait for Office 2010 to activate itself via KMS or you can force it using:

cscript ospp.vbs /act

note: ospp.vbs is located in your office14 installation folder

If you have already activated your Office using the MAK key, you can change that activation to KMS by entering KMS Client key:

cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:

The KMS Client key can be found from:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee624355.aspx

Once you have entered the KMS Client Key, you can either wait or force the activation using ospp.vbs /act