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

Microsoft KMS Host

Recently I have to setup KMS server to activate Windows 2008/R2 and Windows 7 on our network.

Here are some necessary steps/tricks:

• If a Windows was activated with KMS key, it will automatically become a KMS host
• Depending on the KMS host OS and the KMS group key entered, different KMS clients can be activated through this KMS host
• KMS group key C is the highest you can enter which basically can activate all Windows 2008/R2, Vista, and Windows 7 with any edition
• To enter KMS key, run cmd prompt in escalated mode and do:

slmgr.vbs /ipk

• To activate KMS host, do:

slmgr.vbs /ato

• Once KMS host has been activated, check DNS entry for _VLMCS SRV record that points to this KMS host
• To check how many KMS client has been trying to activate themselves through KMS host, do:

slmgr.vbs /dli

• Now all the KMS clients (Volume License Key) should by default try to activate through KMS host
  
• If you accidentally entered a KMS key to a KMS client, you can de-activate the KMS client by entering the "client type" key. Client type key depends on the Windows version, check on the following link

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc303280.aspx

• Once you have the client type key, enter it and activate it:

slmgr.vbs /ipk
slmgr.vbs /ato