Office 2010 and MAK licenses will NOT work with PVS any version. KMS is only supported. If the OS is MAK, then Office 2010 must be KMS. If the OS is KMS, then Office 2010 must be KMS. Make sense? :)
Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 19:18:40 +0000 To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: Office 2010 weirdness Good question (I didn't design the image). I was reading today about the funniness with the OS activations, and how KMS is the only way supported unless you are on PVS 5.6 SP1 or something like that? I am hoping it is KMS licensed. Do you think that may have a bearing on the problems with Office? I also know that MAK activation in Office isn't supported at all, but I thought that just meant you had to activate it some other way once the image had booted. Or am I way off base? The voodoo of MS licensing up against the learning curve of PVS is getting a bit steep :-) I was mainly wondering if anyone had any idea where that error message came from, strange how a Repair installation made it go away. Or not? Cheers, JR On 29 February 2012 18:42, Webster <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: The OS used for the PVS image, it is KMS or MAK licensed? Carl Webster Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional http://www.CarlWebster.com<http://www.carlwebster.com/> From: James Rankin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:10:49 +0000 To: NT Issues <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Office 2010 weirdness Anyone ever seen Office 2010 (on a XenApp server, so it was really bad) just stop working and proclaim to everyone launching an Office app "the operating system is not configured to run this application"? I quickly Googled and did a Repair, which seemed to sort it out, but I am a bit paranoid now in the absence of any definitive root cause. Mind you, this customer is using MAK activation for Office and insists on doing it every time the server restarts (because it's a PVS image without the app installed) - could that have anything to do with it? I'd expect an error saying "you have violated your licenses" or similar, but knowing MSFT anything's possible I suppose. Any pointers would be nice, I am supposed to be handing this over to support tomorrow and don't want to send it across thinking it might fail acceptance :-( ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
