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Transferring MS Office
polrbear[ at ]comcast.net 5/10/2007 5:55:25 PM
I have a large network environment. We installed Office with Open
licenses on all the machines when they were purchased. We are now
refresshing these machines and want to transfer the licenses to the
new machines - which is perfectly fine with open licenses. My problem
is that the people that did those first machines, did not record
license numbers used on each machine so I have no license numbers.
I'm sure there is a way to retrieve the license number off the machine
as it is buried in the registry. Does anyone know of a program that
can pull it out? I'm talking hundreds of machines and don't have the
time (or patience) to manually dive into the registry, but a small
executable on a thumb drive that could recover it would be great since
I already have the thumb drive there for other files...

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Polrbear

Re: Transferring MS Office
XS11E <xs11eNO[ at ]SPAMyahoo.com> 5/10/2007 6:03:02 PM
polrbear[ at ]comcast.net wrote:

[Quoted Text]
> I have a large network environment. We installed Office with Open
> licenses on all the machines when they were purchased. We are now
> refresshing these machines and want to transfer the licenses to
> the new machines - which is perfectly fine with open licenses. My
> problem is that the people that did those first machines, did not
> record license numbers used on each machine so I have no license
> numbers. I'm sure there is a way to retrieve the license number
> off the machine as it is buried in the registry. Does anyone know
> of a program that can pull it out? I'm talking hundreds of
> machines and don't have the time (or patience) to manually dive
> into the registry, but a small executable on a thumb drive that
> could recover it would be great since I already have the thumb
> drive there for other files...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Google for Belarc Advisor, it'll retrieve the keys for you.

Re: Transferring MS Office
"DL" <address[ at ]invalid> 5/10/2007 6:12:57 PM
or magic jellybean

<polrbear[ at ]comcast.net> wrote in message
news:1178819725.669585.100090[ at ]e51g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...
[Quoted Text]
> I have a large network environment. We installed Office with Open
> licenses on all the machines when they were purchased. We are now
> refresshing these machines and want to transfer the licenses to the
> new machines - which is perfectly fine with open licenses. My problem
> is that the people that did those first machines, did not record
> license numbers used on each machine so I have no license numbers.
> I'm sure there is a way to retrieve the license number off the machine
> as it is buried in the registry. Does anyone know of a program that
> can pull it out? I'm talking hundreds of machines and don't have the
> time (or patience) to manually dive into the registry, but a small
> executable on a thumb drive that could recover it would be great since
> I already have the thumb drive there for other files...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Polrbear
>


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