However, compared to Office 2007 it has one major drawback: Like Vista and Windows 7, Office 2010 has to be activated.
#Rearm office 2010 how to#
Office 2010 Reduced Functionality Mode Retail versions of Office 2010 will only run in Reduced Functionality Mode (RFM) after the grace period of 30 days has been exceeded. Office 2010 activation - How to rearm Office 2010 - posted in IT World News: This article explains how you can rearm Office 2010 and for what you need this feature.Office 2010 is certainly the best Office suite out there. dwGraceTime is a dword that holds the grace period before the software will stop working and require activation. Stop the Office Software Protection Platform service first.Ġ. Rearming Office 2010, that is resetting the grace period, work similar as with Windows. I think Ive managed to Rearm my copy of Office 2010 CTP. At that point the rearm will take place, and with a finite number of rearms (five), the image will become useless quickly. A golden image is used to create clones to populate the farm (vSphere 5/Citrix Desktop Controller infrastructure).
The nag window with running timer has gone currently, so I'll know whether it comes back or not.Īll I did was basically rearm the Office timer through the Office Protection Platform cmdline interface. I have a KMS server providing licensing for Windows 7/2008 R2 and Office 2010.