[wpkg-users] Office 2007 Individual Keys

Rainer Meier r.meier at wpkg.org
Tue Jun 15 13:38:04 CEST 2010


Hi Chrisitan,

On 15.06.2010 12:21, Christian Becker wrote:
> I only have individual Office 2007 Keys - No VL Licence.
> 
> Is there a way to install it on several workstations and use an other
> key for every workstation?

For Microsoft Office 2007 you need individual config.xml settings for each host
to do this. Each config.xml needs to include the individual <PIDKEY
Value="xxxxxx" /> setting.

For example you can name them
config-hostX.xml
config-hostY.xml
...

Assuming you know your host names you can do the following:

First create all the individual config files as listed above.

Then create a small batch script (e.g. unattended.cmd) with the following content:

@echo off
echo Installing Microsoft Office 2007
set INSTALL_LOC=%~dp0
start /wait "Office" "%INSTALL_LOC%setup.exe" /config
  "%INSTALL_LOC%CONFIG-%COMPUTERNAME%.XML"



A config.xml file might look as follows:

<Configuration Product="ProHybridr">
	<Display Level="none" CompletionNotice="no" SuppressModal="yes" AcceptEula="yes" />
	<!-- <Logging Type="standard" Path="%temp%" Template="Microsoft Office
Professional Hybrid Setup(*).txt" /> -->

	<!-- The following keys do not allow activation but are used for testing and
pre-configuration -->
	<!-- Low Value aApps (Access, Excel, Groove, InfoPath, InterConnect, OneNote,
Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Designer, Word) -->
	<PIDKEY Value="XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" />
</Configuration>



(sorry for ugly line-breaks)


In fact you might even install MS Office 2007 without any key and then just ask
your users to call helpdesk on first use where helpdesk will either dictate the
right key for this user or use some remote-support solution to enter the key at
first run of any office application.


br,
Rainer



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