Office 2010 AppStack License Issues

[K_Miller]

Hello,

I have attempted to create an office 2010 appstack however when I try to run it I keep receiving license errors indicating that the license cannot be found. I ran the  ospp.vbs script and pointed the install to the KMS server however the floating pool machines still attempt to complete the install, rollback and fail. The commands I ran are below. My floating pool machines are Win7 64 bit, we are at AppVolumes 2.6 across the board and the view agent is not on the provisioning machine as per the appvol instructions. The Office version is Pro Plus 2010. The same version of Office is working with our KMS server in a different gold image.

cscript ospp.vbs / sethst:

cscript ospp.vbs /act

Please let me know if you have been able to get this to work.

Ken

[Ray_handels]

Hey,

It depends on what you are trying to do.

Best practice is to either install all office applications in the golden image or in 1 appstack (office applications being Office, Project and Visio).

Normally the activation (if installing office in an appstack and no office applications or licensing information is in the golden image) should succees. Still. It will eventually end up in either the writable volume or the "floating point" from the virtual machine because office always checks if it is legit against the KMS server.

Also, could you be a little more specific in "i get an error"? We did get this working (however eventually ended up installing all in the golden image) in an appstack.

Off course make sure that the Office Software Protection Service is running and that you run the command in an elevated command prompt (just stating the obvious here )

[CALittle]

Try removing the space between the fowardslash and sethst:

e.g:

cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:licenseserver.domain.local

cscript ospp.vbs /act

The documentation is a little confusing, and the first time I tried the command I mistook it for a line continuation character, but when you type it in like that you should get an invalid command paramater dialog popup

[Lieven]

Can you use MAK keys in Office Appstacks?

cscript ospp.vbs /inputkey:YOUROFFICEMACKEY

cscript ospp.vbs /act

The documentation says "VMware App Volumes supports KMS based licensing for Office", but it does not say it is mandatory.

[Ray_handels]

Nope, MAK keys are not supported in Appstacks. And to my knowledge they are never supported in a pooled environment due to the MAK key being attached to the machine (physical hardware and computer name). Not 100% sure though because we never use them.