I'm using Office 2010 Professional Plus with MAK key (permanently activated). I'm using Visio Premium 2010 with KMS activation (180-day grace period). I was unable to permanently activate Visio using my Office 2010 MAK key, and my Visio grace period kept diminishing. I did the following to fix the problem: 1. run CMD.EXE as admin 2. at DOS prompt, i enter: cscript "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /sethst:127.0.0.1 3. run KEYGEN.EXE as admin (from Tuvi's hack), wait 5 minutes for message saying it's successful 4. back to DOS prompt, i enter: cscript "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /act 5. back to DOS prompt again, i enter: cscript "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /dstatus Here's the result: Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- --------------------------------------- SKU ID: ********************************************** LICENSE NAME: Office 14, OfficeVisioPrem-KMS_Client edition LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 14, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel LICENSE STATUS: ---LICENSED--- ERROR CODE: 0 as licensed Last 5 characters of installed product key: ***** REMAINING GRACE: 180 days (259139 minute(s) before expiring) --------------------------------------- SKU ID: ********************************************** LICENSE NAME: Office 14, OfficeProPlus-MAK edition LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 14, RETAIL channel LICENSE STATUS: ---LICENSED--- ERROR CODE: 0 as licensed Last 5 characters of installed product key: ***** --------------------------------------- --------------------------------------- ---Exiting----------------------------- I'm working on a batch file which will automate the above task in Windows 7 Scheduler every 179 days.
Did you ever do this? I'm not clear on what this does. Does it redirect to a fake KMS to fool the software into thinking it's reached a legitimate KMS server?