Does Re-activationg Office 2013 Damage Windows 8 Activation

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  1. UTDKING

    UTDKING MDL Junior Member

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    #1 UTDKING, Nov 24, 2012
    As the titles quotes Does Re-activating Office 2013 After the 180days damage the windows 8 activation
    Say if a person purchase windows 8 via the windows 8 upgrade offer
    They install windows 8 either by upgrade method or clean install & use the key provided By Microsoft to activate their windows 8
    no problems so far
    Then they add the features of WMC using the free key obtain from M$ & still have a activated system
    Then they install M$ Office 2013 VL & activate using KMS that gives 180 days
    When the office needs to re-activated again to restore the 180 days Will this damage the data file & tokens files that could cause problems to the windows 8 activation
    I`m sure the information on this subject would be helpful to other users
     
  2. s1ave77

    s1ave77 Has left at his own request

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    #2 s1ave77, Nov 24, 2012
    Short answer: Nope! Tested on Pro WMC with multiple activations of Office 15, one is my test machine to check Office activation abilities of a KMS Host :D.
     
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  3. pramodm

    pramodm MDL Member

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    #3 pramodm, Nov 25, 2012
    I second @s1ave77 ! The answer is a big NO. ;)
     
  4. josepistola

    josepistola MDL Novice

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    #4 josepistola, Nov 25, 2012
    Great information.
    Thanks all for the replies.
     
  5. BIOSNOIDEA

    BIOSNOIDEA MDL Senior Member

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    #5 BIOSNOIDEA, Nov 26, 2012
    No dramas at all. Con o sin pistola, Jose ! ok?
     
  6. ishant

    ishant MDL Novice

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    #6 ishant, Nov 26, 2012
    Thanks for great information :)
     
  7. Smorgan

    Smorgan Glitcher

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    #7 Smorgan, Nov 26, 2012
    I guess I'll be the one to dig in.

    The Windows Activation and Office Activation are stored in one cache.dat file now on Windows 8. If I were to take a best guess at the moment the temporary product information is stored in the data.dat of the SPP in system32. Then its processed and updated to the cache.dat with the tokens.dat storing the main product information regarding editions. Simply put to answer your question when the key is entered to upgrade the edition information to WMC the edition in the cache.dat changes over to reflect this change. I think thats a good enough answer :p

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