Screenshot leaked in January reveals Office 2010 activation period

[devHead]

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

Office 2010 does something with your Outlook pst file; I had to create a new mail profile in Outlook 2007 and import all my mail from the one created by 2010. It's not backwards compatible for some reason. Outlook 2007 for me reported that the Outlook.pst was created by a newer version and would likely not work correctly. It was right; it didn't.

[KarbonKopy]

Office 2010 does something with your Outlook pst file; I had to create a new mail profile in Outlook 2007 and import all my mail from the one created by 2010. It's not backwards compatible for some reason. Outlook 2007 for me reported that the Outlook.pst was created by a newer version and would likely not work correctly. It was right; it didn't.

I think the rearm worked for me, its not saying it has 2 days left anymore.

[jasper2344]

Really want to try the rearm but how do i stop the OSPP service to start with????? I know i am a noob!!!!

[Inctye]

Awesome, rearmed for another 30 days. Thank a lot for the code.

Really want to try the rearm but how do i stop the OSPP service to start with????? I know i am a noob!!!!

Go to the windows task manager to end process.

[intersys]

Thank You - worked for me as well. Hope to get beta soon.

[JonathanVP]

Thanks for the code, dude!!! Worked great for me!!

[DWillens]

Re-arm procedure worked great! By the way, in case it is not clear to others who might read this thread, the exact SKUID and APPIDs in mikeyakagod's post worked for me too, so you might want to try copying and pasting his ID's before you go to all the trouble of typing them in yourself! (thanks mike!)

I still am not clear what happens if you do NOT rearm after the 30 days. Does anyone know yet? Is it just a nag screen or is the software actually disabled?

Damon

[saosen]

I believe something went horribly wrong when i tried to do this, when i got to the rearm part, an error returned. When i checked the license status, it was set to unlicensed and the timers were at 0. When i ran word and outlook the same nag screen appeared, but it seemed to work fine with everything intact.

Yet, I ended up uninstalling office 2010, deleted the ospprun.exe, reinstalled and now it still works without the nag screen so far.

[mikeyakagod]

No idea at all! I had 1 day remaining when I did this yesterday. Probably took me two or three hours all up to figure out.

I knew there had to be a cmdline interface for scripting licensing/activation on networks, so once I found it it was just a matter of figuring out the format for the commands (help output is lacking for some arguments), and get the procedure right.

I would have never have noticed the OSPPRUN.exe if I wasn't trying to figure out where the xml's with reference to licensing data were stored.

Good to hear it worked for you guys :)

I considered writing a little VB script to do this, but after laying it down on a post it was easy enough for most people with a little bit of patience to do!

I believe something went horribly wrong when i tried to do this, when i got to the rearm part, an error returned. When i checked the license status, it was set to unlicensed and the timers were at 0. When i ran word and outlook the same nag screen appeared, but it seemed to work fine with everything intact.

Yet, I ended up uninstalling office 2010, deleted the ospprun.exe, reinstalled and now it still works without the nag screen so far.

You need to stop the service after you rearm it, or it'll say unlicensed :) Either by > close or through services.msc interface.

Then you run:

> Initialize

> open

That'll reinitialize the license data and start the service. I thought I bombed mine when that happened too, but then I remembered when rearming Vista beta builds it was the same procedure. Timer/License required a service reinitalization/restart to update.

[saosen]

You need to stop the service after you rearm it, or it'll say unlicensed :) Either by > close or through services.msc interface.

Then you run:

> Initialize

> open

That'll reinitialize the license data and start the service. I thought I bombed mine when that happened too, but then I remembered when rearming Vista beta builds it was the same procedure. Timer/License required a service reinitalization/restart to update.

I could have sworn i did that, several times (although the "Initialize" would always bring an error because the service was running even though i had ended it, i pretty much have no knowledge with the console). But for some reason, after i reinstalled office, it never added the ospprun.exe back to the system32 folder, so I'm not sure if I'll ever have to go through the process again.

[qdave]

Oh interesting rearming techique :) Worked great for me after some figuring out :p

I still am not clear what happens if you do NOT rearm after the 30 days. Does anyone know yet? Is it just a nag screen or is the software actually disabled?

Damon

Actually nothing too serious happens...mine expired yesterday, an i was greeted with the need to activate screen. However after pressing ok, it continued to work as before. And each time you start word you would get the same messaged.

[MagicAndre1981]

Office 2010 now used the same activation methods like Windows Vista / 7. VLK 1.0 is gone now you have MAK/KMS and retail keys. Also this License Service is knwon from Vista, so there is nothing special that this rearm morks.

but good find!

[mikeyakagod]

Office 2010 now used the same activation methods like Windows Vista / 7. VLK 1.0 is gone now you have MAK/KMS and retail keys. Also this License Service is knwon from Vista, so there is nothing special that this rearm morks.

but good find!

Exactly!

SkuId 0 = LAK/KMS

SkuId 1 = MAK

It's a good thing that they changed the licensing/activation model for Office to same as Vista/7 use. SPP actually works pretty well in most cases!

[TEX4S]

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

better backup the .pst files to somewhere else in your HDD - maybe in the Downloads folder/library ?

(if you have more than 1 identity/email addy in Outlook) when you export them - name them appropriately

I say this because I am currently importing 4 .pst files for my father and the only thing I have to sort them out is Outlook1, Outlook2, Outlook3, and Outlook4

pain in the butt when trying to import them accordingly - but you prob already know this

[HSChronic]

better backup the .pst files to somewhere else in your HDD - maybe in the Downloads folder/library ?

(if you have more than 1 identity/email addy in Outlook) when you export them - name them appropriately

I say this because I am currently importing 4 .pst files for my father and the only thing I have to sort them out is Outlook1, Outlook2, Outlook3, and Outlook4

pain in the butt when trying to import them accordingly - but you prob already know this

That is why you build your own exchange server on your home network, no need to worry about PST files :)

Also to those people who wonder what happens when you don't activate the TP... nothing it still works. I am on day 0+1 of no activation and no issues other than the nag screen.

[jasper2344]

Great thanks for ther info managed to sort it out and alls well. :D

[jasondefaoite]

Thanks for the rearm instructions ... will try tomorrow :)

[Zwinky]

worked for me ! thnx !

[cwpenner]

I will try the rearm, thanks! The only thing I've noticed, is for the "Send to OneNote 2010" printer, it will only print in greyscale on letter sized paper, and I only noticed this after the activation ran out... So I think it's technically in "reduced functionality mode" but that's all I've managed to find for reduced functionality haha. It's actually pretty annoying since I use OneNote a lot, and hence I need the printer working in color and on a bigger size haha.

[fred131]

Hi everyone, I have the same problem on the nagging window on my office 2010 that it need activation and call my administrator so I tried the method given but encounter the problem that I don't know how to stop the window licensing service in my window xp.

Can someone teach me how to stop the window licensing service in xp using command prompt ? maybe a step by step command to reset/activate the office 2010.

Thanks..

[EmJay]

Does anybody know the Product IDs for Visio and Project?

They are about to expire as well on me.

Thanks

No idea at all! I had 1 day remaining when I did this yesterday. Probably took me two or three hours all up to figure out.

I knew there had to be a cmdline interface for scripting licensing/activation on networks, so once I found it it was just a matter of figuring out the format for the commands (help output is lacking for some arguments), and get the procedure right.

I would have never have noticed the OSPPRUN.exe if I wasn't trying to figure out where the xml's with reference to licensing data were stored.

Good to hear it worked for you guys :)

I considered writing a little VB script to do this, but after laying it down on a post it was easy enough for most people with a little bit of patience to do!

You need to stop the service after you rearm it, or it'll say unlicensed :) Either by > close or through services.msc interface.

Then you run:

> Initialize

> open

That'll reinitialize the license data and start the service. I thought I bombed mine when that happened too, but then I remembered when rearming Vista beta builds it was the same procedure. Timer/License required a service reinitalization/restart to update.

[1uk3]

Thank you so much for the below - great work - it's saved me lots of time. :)

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.

[Chrysaor]

I am getting a bsod (multiple_irp_complete_requests) when opening/saving documents with Word 2010. Anyone else is getting this? Just started having this issue today.

[Avlor]

Cool, worked for me! Thanks for a nice one-click solution! :)

[devilredfield]

great! i will try to improve ASAP