Office 2003 Activation?

[harootun]

I made a boot camp partition and installed Office 2003 and activated it. Now, when running it as a virtual machine in VMWare, it asked me to activate Office again. I did so and it says it's already been activated and cannot be activated. This is a new copy of Office 2003 I bought to use on my mac. Very frustrating!

Any suggestions in terms of getting Office 2003 to work in both directly in Boot Camp and a VMWare Fusion virtual machine? Do I have to chooose one or the other?

[Christian_Schub]

Same problem with Office 2007.

After install the latest updates for Office this problem still exists.

Are there suggestions on the vmware side how to solve this?

regards,

Christian

[gbraad1]

With Office 2007 you will experience the same issue... even if you have a MSDN key with which you have to activate; it keeps asking for activation from bootcamp and vmware (over and over again).

[Andreas_Masur]

This has been reported earlier and seems to be an issue with the way Office handles the underlying activation mechanism. VMware is aware of this though.

I agree though that this should be fixed before GA.

Ciao, Andreas

[cpetersen]

Is this still an issue?

[dborja]

Yes. Anybody know the fix?

[krasilnikoff]

I need this as well.

[DaveP]

There isn't one I know of apart from using a VLK version of Office.