office 2013 - activation

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morning all,

so, at work i buy each of my users a copy of office 2013 home & business when they start.

All laptop's and PC have a asset tag on them that is used as the computer name as well.

I use this asset tag / computer name to create a windows live id to license the copy of 2013 to. sounds good right?

My issue is that MS will only allow you to create 3 live id's from the same IP within a 24 hour period. I had to do a batch job of 20 the other week and after using all 4 different fixed lines i have i had to start nesting products within other live id's to finish the roll out.

Now I'm looking for a way to pull these nested products from their assisted live id and move to another, the correct one for the computer it's installed on.

I can;t find anyway to do this so I'm hoping someone here has done something like this themselves and can offer some pearls of wisdom??

thanks in advance
 
You could always activate them all under the one Live ID. Not ideal but saves you create new logins.

I hate the way you have to activate Office 2013 with a passion.
 
Just out of interest, are you creating completely standalone live id's or using your business domain name with microsoft and creating live id's off of one main admin enabled live id for your business?

That's how I thought it was intended for businesses and I'd be surprised if that way had the 3 user account creation limit.

http://www.domains.live.com/
 
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We use a single ID for each of the companies we support. Putting as many licenses as they own onto the company's ID.

It is a pain though. Not a good decision by Microsoft to go about activating this way.
 
I have many office installs under one account. The easiest way i find to manage them is to click the install from disc option in the 2013 portal, it gives you a product key and the ISO download.

I know which install is on which pc by the product key. They really don't like to make it easy for your though.


I wish you could rename the title of the one click option, to make it personal to the PC. Many times i have done a couple of installs to find a product key clash.
 
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If you're adding 20 users one week and then taking on more staff on a fairly regular basis I'm struggling to see how you wouldn't be better off with some sort of volume license agreement.
 
thanks for reply guys.

it works out cheaper for us to use single retail licenses as we can take them from stock.

We've also decided that it's easier to make a new id for each install as it's a nightmare to work out who's is who's when they are nested together.

but now I'm stuck with the ones i have nested together as I can't separate them out.

:(
 
linktoinsanity said:
We use a single ID for each of the companies we support. Putting as many licenses as they own onto the company's ID.

It is a pain though. Not a good decision by Microsoft to go about activating this way.
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The whole O2013 activation system is utter junk - it's hated with passion within my team at work.

We registered a .co.uk and create a lot of the MS customer accounts off that. Not being able to tag each individual key is pathetic - somebody at MS needs a good slap. We track both the boxed and online key in our asset database (plus the credentials for the MS accounts). Finally, we also print off the online key onto a label and put it on the PKC so a copy of the key goes out with the PC.

Oh, and IIRC, you can't move the keys between MS accounts :rolleyes:
 
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#Chri5# said:
Oh, and IIRC, you can't move the keys between MS accounts :rolleyes:
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that's what i feared. :(

I get why MS has done what they've done. it kinda makes sense from a home user point of view, but why only offer this type of activation??

grrrr.... /sad face
 
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