Screenshot leaked in January reveals Office 2010 activation period

[vista18000]

How long could we play with the recently leaked Office 2010 build without activating it? I just find a screenshot of much earlier build of Office 2010, which could give us a hint on the activation period (about 30 days) without a product key. However, this may change in the leaked Office Technical Preview build. After the activation period expires, we know that the entire Office suite will become Office reader:) Maybe a "limit-less" way of experimenting Office 2010 is creating a virtual machine and making a guest OS snapshot:)

[Xstyle]

Am i missing something? I have Office 2010 and the Microsoft Word screen (your screen) it's different than mine...there is another leaked version beside the Tehnical one (newer one)?

Edited May 17, 2009 by Xstyle

[+Anarkii Subscriber²]

By the looks of it the OPs screenshot is from the alpha, and not the Tech Preview.

[Calum Veteran]

Am i missing something? I have Office 2010 and the Microsoft Word screen (your screen) it's different than mine...there is another leaked version beside the Tehnical one (newer one)?

The screenshot he is referring to is an old screenshot.

The leaked 'technical preview' of Office 2010 is an older version of the code as to what will be released to people who have signed up for the technical preview. It may be that everyone has to wait until then to find out what the activation period is one both builds.

[SQ1]

Oh, not good!

[DrCheese]

yes I got that today as well....

[intersys]

Same here - wonder if Office 2007 will install back over it keeping pst files.

yes I got that today as well....

[dirka]

awww shucks, i dont' want to give up 2010! anyone know if there are keys available???

[Quillz]

Will Office 2010 even be released this year?

At the very least, will there be a public beta later this year? I was hoping it'd be possible to replace the preview with a beta before it expires.

[ymeaga1n]

Oddly enough, mine says 4 days remaining too. But it said 4 days remaining yesterday too. Did anyone's get to 3 days yet?

[Imran Hussain]

Will Office 2010 even be released this year?

At the very least, will there be a public beta later this year? I was hoping it'd be possible to replace the preview with a beta before it expires.

The beta will be out in July to selected testers and I wont be surprised if it leaks out.

[qdave]

Oddly enough, mine says 4 days remaining too. But it said 4 days remaining yesterday too. Did anyone's get to 3 days yet?

It said 4 days for me yesterday,a nd now i have only 3 days remaining. damn :p

Weirdly though, it didn't ask to activate before.

[ymeaga1n]

It said 4 days for me yesterday,a nd now i have only 3 days remaining. damn :p

Weirdly though, it didn't ask to activate before.

haha damn it!

Same here, it just popped up out of the blue.

[qdave]

It seems that we will have to get back to office 2007 again :(

[Pugalenthi]

It seems that we will have to get back to office 2007 again :(

Me going back to 2007 within 2 days.... So Sad .... can't even find a key or a activation for it :no:

[jimsey]

yep looks like its back to 2007 for me too, though i have read that when the 30 days expires, you can continue to use all functions... guess i'll wait 3 days and find out

[Xstyle]

Damn! When i started to really like this! Well......2007 here i come...again!

[Inctye]

Bummer. So reinstalling 2010 won't reset the activation period? If it doesn't then there has to be a registry key that can be deleted to reset the trial. Unless, of course, the activation keeps track of the computers using the trial over the network.

[Bluestraw]

I set my clock forward 1 week, and although I get the 'not activated' message when opening an Office app they continue to work just fine. So nothing to worry about! I then put the date back and I now have 3 days again, so seems this expiration is nothing more than a simple date check, which would probably be reset anyway by uninstalling / re-installing.

Anyway, no need to go backwards to O2007 :)

[Inctye]

I set my clock forward 1 week, and although I get the 'not activated' message when opening an Office app they continue to work just fine. So nothing to worry about! I then put the date back and I now have 3 days again, so seems this expiration is nothing more than a simple date check, which would probably be reset anyway by uninstalling / re-installing.

Anyway, no need to go backwards to O2007 :)

Nope. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, no dice.

As for the changing the clock time, it would be a pain to mess with that all the way. From what I notice, OSPPSVC.exe is responsible for the trial resetting. Office even automatically repairs itself when you delete this exe. Have to give props to MS for tightening up on freeloading. :p

[Bluestraw]

But what is the impact of an expired copy? Seems to work just the same, so apart from the nag screen it's fine - I think?

[qdave]

I set my clock forward 1 week, and although I get the 'not activated' message when opening an Office app they continue to work just fine. So nothing to worry about! I then put the date back and I now have 3 days again, so seems this expiration is nothing more than a simple date check, which would probably be reset anyway by uninstalling / re-installing.

Anyway, no need to go backwards to O2007 :)

Ah thanks for the bright findings ;) That nag screen is not much of problem for me. And besides beta version is comming out soon, so we just have to stick with this version for a wee bit more.

[Inctye]

But what is the impact of an expired copy? Seems to work just the same, so apart from the nag screen it's fine - I think?

If it is just a nag screen, then I guess it won't be a problem. I just don't hope it goes into a read-only mode or something. I got 3 days left, so guess most of us will find out soon.

[Bero]

there got to be a way to reset the timer or crack it no big deal

just need a grp to focus on it

[mikeyakagod]

I think I've managed to Rearm my copy of Office 2010 CTP.

dwGraceTime is a dword that holds the grace period before the software will stop working and require activation. This shows that I have 29 days 23 hours 53sec remaining now.

> GetLicensingStatus 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663  128a057a-7e95-4063-b2
96-c54c5f3d3f3a
SkuId			= 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a
eStatus		  = SL_LICENSING_STATUS_IN_GRACE_PERIOD
dwGraceTime	  = 29D 23:53
dwTotalGraceDays = 30 days
hrReason		 = 4004F00C
qwExpiration	 = 2010/10/31


OK.

>

The nag window with running timer has gone currently, so I'll know whether it comes back or not.

All I did was basically rearm the Office timer through the Office Protection Platform cmdline interface.

Stop the Office Software Protection Platform service first.

run C:\Windows\System32\OSPPRUN.exe.

>Initialize

>Open

>GetInstalledSkuIds
   0. 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a (you are interested in this one)
   1. 26adec89-edf3-4adc-a3fc-c865f1a9f71f

OK.

> GetInstalledAppIds 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a
   0. 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663

OK.

 (Will Look something like this if you have 1 day remaining)

> GetLicensingStatus 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a
SkuId			= 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a
eStatus		  = SL_LICENSING_STATUS_IN_GRACE_PERIOD
dwGraceTime	  = 1D 23:37 
dwTotalGraceDays = 30 days
hrReason		 = 4004F00C
qwExpiration	 = 2010/10/31


OK.

(This rearms the AppId and specific SkuId for Office 2010 you are using, I think they should be the same for all, if not just replace it with what yours returns from the command)

> Rearm 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a 1

OK.

>close

>Initialize

>open

Should Show something like the following now if it rearmed successfully! 

> GetLicensingStatus 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a
SkuId			= 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a
eStatus		  = SL_LICENSING_STATUS_IN_GRACE_PERIOD
dwGraceTime	  = 29D 23:37
dwTotalGraceDays = 30 days
hrReason		 = 4004F00C
qwExpiration	 = 2010/10/31

>quit

This command shows remaining rearms.

> GetApplicationInformation 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 RemainingRearmCount
(DWORD, []) 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 = 4


OK.

This shows how many rearms you have performed.

> GetApplicationInformation 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 RearmCount
(DWORD, []) 59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 = 1


OK.

I lost my buffer logs but I'm pretty certain this is the procedure I did step by step. I've tried to explain best I can.

At the > you can type "?" for help.

I don't know if this was intentional or not, to prevent the preview being used for more than 30 days but the following is why the nag screen has appeared :)

> ActivateProduct 128a057a-7e95-4063-b296-c54c5f3d3f3a

Error code hr = 0x8007232B,DNS name does not exist.

DNS entry for the activation server hostname doesn't exist on any Root DNS servers, so perhaps this was intentional :)

Edit: Oops forgot to mention make sure you launch Command Prompt with Elevated Privs otherwise you will get errors that you can't perform the operation.

Edited June 15, 2009 by mikeyakagod