Cannot Activate?

[keogh]

Hi,

I've been beta testing Office 2007 Beta (the first one) on XP and managed to
activate it a few times after formats. Well I've just put Vista RC1 on my PC
and installed my copy of 2007 Beta and cannot for the life of me activate it?
I can't beta test it if I lose many of its features?

The connection status bar goes along... and never stops, just I then get a
popup saying Communication error, or it cant find an internet connection?

Ive tried from word and powerpoint about 40 times now... how can I activate
it if I can't connect?

I've opened up Windows Firewall for WINWORD.exe and my router firewall
certainly isn't blocking it.

Any ideas what it could be? Or any other ways I can activate it?

Thanks

Steve M

 

[Echo S]

I'm not sure what exactly needs to get through for activation. It may be
something other than winword.exe. What if you temporarily disable the
firewall altogether? (I hate to suggest that, but....)

 

[keogh]

Hi Echo,

Cheers for the response, but unfortuntely thast didn't work either! It hung
on the connecting... screen for a lot longer, but then just chucked "A
Communication error occured etc etc" at me.

I activated this product several times on XP and did so quite recently
aswell and never had any problems with it?

I had no problems activating Vista RC1?

Any more ideas?
--
ta,

Steve McKeogh

I'm not sure what exactly needs to get through for activation. It may be
something other than winword.exe. What if you temporarily disable the
firewall altogether? (I hate to suggest that, but....)

 

[keogh]

Just though I'd let you know that I got it activated now... just tried it and
it worked pretty much instantly, strange?

ta
--
ta,

Steve McKeogh

Hi Echo,

Cheers for the response, but unfortuntely thast didn't work either! It hung
on the connecting... screen for a lot longer, but then just chucked "A
Communication error occured etc etc" at me.

I activated this product several times on XP and did so quite recently
aswell and never had any problems with it?

I had no problems activating Vista RC1?

Any more ideas?
--
ta,

Steve McKeogh

I'm not sure what exactly needs to get through for activation. It may be
something other than winword.exe. What if you temporarily disable the
firewall altogether? (I hate to suggest that, but....)

--
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Hi,

I've been beta testing Office 2007 Beta (the first one) on XP and managed
to
activate it a few times after formats. Well I've just put Vista RC1 on my
PC
and installed my copy of 2007 Beta and cannot for the life of me activate
it?
I can't beta test it if I lose many of its features?

The connection status bar goes along... and never stops, just I then get a
popup saying Communication error, or it cant find an internet connection?

Ive tried from word and powerpoint about 40 times now... how can I
activate
it if I can't connect?

I've opened up Windows Firewall for WINWORD.exe and my router firewall
certainly isn't blocking it.

Any ideas what it could be? Or any other ways I can activate it?

Thanks

Steve M

 

[Echo S]

Wow, maybe there was something really going on with the servers, then. At
any rate, glad to hear you got it going.