Ghosting Office Installs

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Brian

We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian
 
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Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You can use the OEM deployment tools as one method.
http://microsoft.com/oem

If you've activated the software that you installed
(OEM software is tied to a specific machine) and clone
it as such you may run into problems.
You may also want to test this method.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895456&FR=1

======
We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You can use the OEM deployment tools as one method.
http://microsoft.com/oem

If you've activated the software that you installed
(OEM software is tied to a specific machine) and clone
it as such you may run into problems.
You may also want to test this method.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895456&FR=1

======
We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You can use the OEM deployment tools as one method.
http://microsoft.com/oem

If you've activated the software that you installed
(OEM software is tied to a specific machine) and clone
it as such you may run into problems.
You may also want to test this method.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895456&FR=1

======
We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You can use the OEM deployment tools as one method.
http://microsoft.com/oem

If you've activated the software that you installed
(OEM software is tied to a specific machine) and clone
it as such you may run into problems.
You may also want to test this method.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895456&FR=1

======
We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You can use the OEM deployment tools as one method.
http://microsoft.com/oem

If you've activated the software that you installed
(OEM software is tied to a specific machine) and clone
it as such you may run into problems.
You may also want to test this method.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895456&FR=1

======
We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You can use the OEM deployment tools as one method.
http://microsoft.com/oem

If you've activated the software that you installed
(OEM software is tied to a specific machine) and clone
it as such you may run into problems.
You may also want to test this method.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895456&FR=1

======
We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You can use the OEM deployment tools as one method.
http://microsoft.com/oem

If you've activated the software that you installed
(OEM software is tied to a specific machine) and clone
it as such you may run into problems.
You may also want to test this method.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895456&FR=1

======
We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You can use the OEM deployment tools as one method.
http://microsoft.com/oem

If you've activated the software that you installed
(OEM software is tied to a specific machine) and clone
it as such you may run into problems.
You may also want to test this method.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895456&FR=1

======
We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 
B

Bob Buckland ?:-\)

Hi Brian,

You can use the OEM deployment tools as one method.
http://microsoft.com/oem

If you've activated the software that you installed
(OEM software is tied to a specific machine) and clone
it as such you may run into problems.
You may also want to test this method.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;895456&FR=1

======
We have purchased 30 PCs and 30 office basic (OEM) licenses. To save time, I
want to set up one PC and then ghost it to the rest of them. If I have
already activated office on the source PC, would each PC require activation
again? If so, is there a way around having to reactivate office on every PC?
Searching the internet yielded lots of info about reactivating on the same
PC, but I couldn't find anything concrete that described my siutation.

Thanks
Brian>>
--
Let us know if this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?:)
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

For Everyday MS Office tips to "use right away" -
http://microsoft.com/events/series/administrativetipsandtricks.mspx
 

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