its actually quite easy all you need to do is mod the setup files and then mod the OSPP.vbs to change the edition and you have the volume copy you always wanted and its smaller than the current way of changing it.... All you need is the Proplus.WW located in the Setup folder in common files from the volume copy and a few other bits and pieces located in the registry prob and your all set.... I haven't really given it the effort I should be but thats basically how its done... You also need to the swap the tokens.dat and cache.dat in order to pull it off... and prob the pkey....
Hey guys, good news. I was able to change an installed version of Office 2010 Retail into VL. And better news is that very little modofication is needed. will post the method soon.
could you not just amend this batch file for the purpose that you have stated above? @echo off net stop osppsvc takeown /f "%PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\pkeyconfig-office.xrm-ms" icacls "%PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\pkeyconfig-office.xrm-ms" /grant administrators:F /t del /F /Q "%PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\pkeyconfig-office.xrm-ms" copy "%~dp0pkeyconfig-office.xrm-ms" "%PROGRAMFILES%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE14\Office Setup Controller\pkeyconfig-office.xrm-ms" takeown /f "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\tokens.dat" icacls "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\tokens.dat" /grant administrators:F /t del /F /Q "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\tokens.dat" copy "%~dp0tokens.dat" "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\tokens.dat" takeown /f "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\Cache" /r icacls "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\Cache" /grant administrators:F /t rd /s /Q "%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\Cache" cscript "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /inpkey:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cscript "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act cscript "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /dstatus pause Or you could just go and buy your own Key! and be sure that it works 100%
I'm finding it very strange that people are changing from retail to volume licensing. Retail is permanent activation. Volume Licensing is every 180-days. Why would anyone wanna give up permanent activation to get 180-days? If anything, we would like to figure out a way to convert volume licensing to retail.
Although that is quite possible in the same way as I posted above. Retail edition can only be activated over internet and by connecting to microsoft. You must use a valid Retail or MAK key to activate it. But we want to change into VL so that we can use KMS activation that does not include any connection to Microsoft. I thought it was obvious, but I edit my post so that everyone is clear about it. AND you should ask this question a long time ago when topic was started, shouldn't you? ;D
I use a key provided by the same source pkaji123 permanent key was found with this "Frankibuild" volume licence version and some how I managed to activate permanently thx btw for your method.
No problem m8. I am sure pkaji123 will post an answer for that but I am going to give a note before he does. The key that kindly was offered by pkaji123 was a MAK key. MAK=Multiple Activation Key A key that can be used to activate a number of Office installations on differant computers. But MAK keys are limited too. As pkaji123 already stated a MAK retrieved from MSDN is capable of activating 1000 copies. after that you cannot use that key to activate new Office installations (As pkaji123's reached its limit and new copies cannot be activated using it, or so i think). And another problem is that leaked MAK keys has the chance to be blacklisted by Microsoft. (Just like the well-known 6QFDX key does). Anyway, I personally prefer KMS activation.
Ok! here i come,a small mistake in this,you cannot activate a retail version using a MAK key,MAK key provides a permanent activation for VL edition only,I don't think my MAK is leaked as popular as those 2 retail key,You cannot get it via a google search,As i said earlier a MAK Key has 1000 activations,A little clear.. Retail Version----------------->Permanent activation only through a retail Key. VL Version--------------------->KMS Activation(180 Days),permanent activation using a MAK Key.
PrjPRO.WW ( x64 ) : Visio.WW ( x64 ) : Found them in this thread itself, but they do not contain the language pack. Is it possible give a link to the language pack for the above (x64)?
Retail to VL changer version 0.1 Here is Office 2010 Retail to VL changer. I have written the script to automate everything. I added 0.1 version so that we can track changes that we make to the script in future. I tested the script on 2 more systems and it worked perfectly, but still if you experienced a problem let me know. The script changes your Retail licence into VL and intalls the microsoft KMS client key. You must activate your Office yourself. (I thought it was against forum rules to add activator to this script, that's why you have to do that part manually.) Link: