[ms office - 2010] Its Here!!

[Gatt]

RTM now on TechNet!!

[ZeroHour]

Is Plus the same as what will be used for VA keys?

[HMCTech]

Damn I was supposed to do assignments this evening, SharePoint time!

[Ric_]

The download on my Technet+ has only a single key per edition (x86 or x64) and it's a retail key which I assume will be a MAK key rather than a KMS one.

 

There is a note that additional keys will be available on April 30th.

[ZeroHour]

The download on my Technet+ has only a single key per edition (x86 or x64) and it's a retail key which I assume will be a MAK key rather than a KMS one.

 

There is a note that additional keys will be available on April 30th.

 

Do you know if Plus is the KMS edition we are meant to use? 2007 had an enterprise edition as such.

[Gatt]

This link may help

Microsoft Office 2010 Suites SKU (Edition) Applications Inclusion Details

[ZeroHour]

Thanks for that Gatt, Plus be the edition then. I wish it wasnt plus though, it just sounds lame

[Gatt]

Agreed, prefered Enterprise, lol

Need to download the KMS Host app too to activate Office KMS Keys...

[User3204]

Hmm.. I've got a MAK and KMS code on the Licensing site, but there's no download yet..

 

Now that I've signed up to the Technet (with what appears to be two separate agreements) I can see all these things listed but "unavailable", and one (or rather two, one x86 and one x64) of them is the new Office.

 

I wonder if I need to wait for it to update something..

[Gatt]

It wont appear on VLSC/MVLS until 27th (Next Tuesday)..

Not sure why you dont have it on TechNet though...

[AngryTechnician]

Well, the download on TechNet is a retail copy so can't be used with the KMS or MAK keys you might have from VLSC. Unsurprising, but slightly irritating nonetheless.

[apearce]

The full release for schools with volume licensing is the 29th April.

 

A.

[napsburypark]

Can anyone tell me how much a site licence for Office 2010 will cost for a secondary school 300 machines & 1500 users?

 

Thank you.

[mattx]

Downloaded and installed on my old Dell D610 and it runs quite well........ which is surprising.

[FN-GM]

Not another Microsoft product requiring activation

[Gatt]

Not another Microsoft product requiring activation

 

Yep, it even needs its own KMS Host Server!! If they keep this up we'll need a dedicated server just to run KMS Servers!

[CyberNerd]

Can anyone tell me how much a site licence for Office 2010 will cost for a secondary school 300 machines & 1500 users?

 

Thank you.

 

It's likely to be around £30 per license - so 9 grand ish without schools agreement.

We pretty much ditched MSOffice now, we still have legacy installations of 2003 but all new equipment has only Google Docs and OpenOffice. Saves us over 20k every 3-4 yrs.

[FN-GM]

Yep, it even needs its own KMS Host Server!! If they keep this up we'll need a dedicated server just to run KMS Servers!

 

Its getting annoying. The Pirates can get round the activation. Pretty easy as well to be honest.

[Gatt]

What they should do is release KMS in an MMC with the option to add "modules" for the likes of Windows Vista/2008, 7/2008 R2, Office 2010, etc so that its easier to manage KMS without the need for that bloody slmgr.vbs script

 

VAMT is better, but still clunky...

[mbedford]

It's likely to be around £30 per license - so 9 grand ish without schools agreement.

We pretty much ditched MSOffice now, we still have legacy installations of 2003 but all new equipment has only Google Docs and OpenOffice. Saves us over 20k every 3-4 yrs.

 

Really, was that a decision forced upon you by SMT or something that the IT department at your place suggested? It just seems with the vast majority of industry using a version of MS Office as there office package, to remove the avialability of that from students seems a little short sighted.

 

Im not knocking your idea, just wandering how you came to it?

Mike

[AngryTechnician]

What they should do is release KMS in an MMC with the option to add "modules" for the likes of Windows Vista/2008, 7/2008 R2, Office 2010, etc so that its easier to manage KMS without the need for that bloody slmgr.vbs script

 

VAMT is better, but still clunky...

 

This will help: Microsoft Office 2010 KMS Host License Pack

 

This download contains an executable file that will extract and install KMS host license files. These license files are required for the KMS host service to recognize Office 2010 KMS host keys. It will also prompt you to enter your Office 2010 KMS host key and activate that key.

 

No need to use slmgr.vbs for Office unless you have some special configuration to do.

 

Furthermore, Office 2010 doesn't need "its own KMS Host server", it is quite happy using the same server you use for Windows KMS activation. KMS is hardly a heavyweight service; you'd be hard pushed to find any Windows server in your school without the resources to run it.

[FN-GM]

would you need a minimum 30 installs of office to have this working like with windows?

[AngryTechnician]

There is a minimum, but it's a much more sensible 5 (yes, five).

 

Microsoft Office 2010 Engineering : Volume Activation

Office KMS clients are activated when five or more computers with Office attempt activation with the KMS host.

 

 

(FYI the same page says it's 25 for Windows, rather than 30, which is what I'd understood it to be. I still wish it was the same as Office as I've only got 19 Windows 7 machines here right now!)

[ZeroHour]

(FYI the same page says it's 25 for Windows, rather than 30, which is what I'd understood it to be. I still wish it was the same as Office as I've only got 19 Windows 7 machines here right now!)

Wipe one and reactive and you should be good to go. Also you do know if you switch any 2008/2008R2 servers to KMS they count as well so you could just switch a server.

[CyberNerd]

Really, was that a decision forced upon you by SMT or something that the IT department at your place suggested? It just seems with the vast majority of industry using a version of MS Office as there office package, to remove the avialability of that from students seems a little short sighted.

 

Im not knocking your idea, just wandering how you came to it?

Mike

 

A bit of each really, after a few discussions with SMT the school has decided to focus on what is the best long term solutions for the school and the students, rather than that of industry. Spending tens of thousands of pounds on a package that has several viable and cheaper alternatives didn't seem to be in the long term interests of the school. The ICT (teaching department) agreed that they could use OpenOffice and google for teaching, and that they were to focus on teaching the concepts and not teaching specific functions of particular applications. The financial decision was obviously a big part - compounded the fact that we do not have licenses for enough copies of MSOffice to deploy site-wide. We'll still install MSOffice (2003) upon request, if an identifiable business need can be proven.