Office 2010 Toolkit and EZ-Activator.

No, Visio is able to handle 3 different keys, with Premium>Pro>Standard. As long as visio runs like it is activated you are fine.

 

@Bosh how's the UI for MTK? I've been changing UI in some other places.

I made the key and CID prompts a bit nicer, and no more need to enter dashes. I also enhanced the PID box in settings to list in a combobox all stored office PID, making it a little easier for users to switch out the PID. None of this relates to the UI work you are doing though.

I'm thinking about finally starting the "Network KMS Host Service" that I said I would bring back.

 

OK I got the hard part done. I'll be calling it "MultiKMS".

It will be a "dumb" activator, meaning it will just provide the ability to activate clients, nothing else. One would set the server on your PC's to your network host/port, and it would try every 7 days (you could have your own script or have AutoKMS call your MultiKMS server, or just wait every 7 days).

It is meant for the power user, who knows what they are doing.

It has features no other KMS activator has. It can run multiple KMS instances, due to my ability to patch the port in the KMSEmulator code/file. I'd inject multiple instance, each running on a different port with it's own PID. By default it has one instance, with ZWT PID. You can add/change/delete instances via Settings tab.

This is meant for people to be able to run their own KMS servers using KMSEmulator, but provide a means for clients who don't like a certain PID to use another. You'd generally setup a new instance as you find clients not liking a PID (you don't want to change the PID on a single instance as working clients might break on the new PID). You'd just change the port on the client and it would use a different PID to activate.

All the PID stuff would be required to be figured out by the admin. Youd do this by running EZ-Activator on a machine that fails, let it do its PID change. and use that new PID used by EZ-Activator as the PID for the new instance (you'd note it, run to your server, and create new instance with that PID, and change the client's port to the port of the new instance).

A little bit of a hassle, as this is meant for a server/network setup, so it isn't as simple/automatic as EZ-Activator+AutoKMS, but the users that would do this sort of thing should be able to do it no problem.

I still have to code the actual service, which is much simpler than creating the INI format and being able to add/remove/change instances, and check for port conflicts. All the service would do is loop through that file creating a vbc.exe process injected with KMSEmulator, then change PID.

I may have to adapt my memory edit code, given I work by process and all those processes would have the same name...

This feature and new features will be added/tested in MTK. OTK release here is meant to be the "stable" release, and MTK the "beta" release, and when beta becomes stable MTK will replace OTK.

 

MultiKMS is working fine now.

Does anyone know of a nice way to get the path to any installed service (not in the service code but from MTK), without having to read it from the registry manually?

I don't want to have to start the service just to figure out where it is.

EDIT:
Unless there is a built in C# means, reading the registry is simpler than some of the classes I've seen posted that end up reading from the registry but use far less code. I'd rather read in 5 lines and get only what I need than use custom code to get any setup property under the sun.

Just need to merge Bosh Selector UI when he does that and I'll have a new MTK release to test.

@Bosh should we make the Selector UI just look nicer or do you have a better way?

 

Yeah basically I don't want to fuse windows and office stuff into one window only, though in realitk WTK and OTK are the same app, just hiding certain tabs and changing title+icon on the fly based on whether we are running WTK or OTK.

I've changed code but nothing that would effect UI work. I'll merge the UI you make and reup then.

 

I don't think that has anything to do with this tool, but it sounds like you need to look further into that.

 

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