Activate Office after Administrative Setup

[Ron Hinds]

Our users do not have internet access. How do they activate Office 2003
after doing a custom installation from a network share? Is there an easy way
for me to do this for all of them?

 

[Michael Kincaid]

Our users do not have internet access. How do they activate Office 2003
after doing a custom installation from a network share? Is there an easy
way for me to do this for all of them?

If you have a VLK (i.e. some form of volume license, such as Open), then no
activation should be required. Make sure you're using the VL media (not a
retail or OEM disc) to install. You could even specify the key in a setup
transform and/or in Setup.ini, so users installing from your AIP won't need
to enter it.

If these are retail boxes, then each installation would have a separate key,
so by definition, it would need a separate activation, either by phone or
internet. That would basically preclude doing it en masse, AFAIK.

Perhaps I've missed something?

 

[Ron Hinds]

If you have a VLK (i.e. some form of volume license, such as Open), then
no activation should be required. Make sure you're using the VL media (not
a retail or OEM disc) to install. You could even specify the key in a
setup transform and/or in Setup.ini, so users installing from your AIP
won't need to enter it.

If these are retail boxes, then each installation would have a separate
key, so by definition, it would need a separate activation, either by
phone or internet. That would basically preclude doing it en masse, AFAIK.

Perhaps I've missed something?

I'm using a MSDN license. I did enter the license key in my transform, and
indeed, the installation doesn't prompt for it. But as soon as I open, e.g.,
Word, it asks me to activate either by phone or internet.