Too Many Installations

[Warrior - CILO]

I have a DELL OEM installation disk for Office 2007, however it seems that I
have installed this product too many times. Over the years I either had to
clean my system and re-install or installed on a newly purchased device in
which my last device was stolen.

Do I necessarily have to purchase a new disk to overcome this problem?
Please assist on how I can renew my product key for additional installations.

 

[Rich/rerat]

Warrior,
Are you sure that these Dell OEM installation disks for Office'07 are not for
the trial version? I know that my Dimension E521 came with the installation
Disks for the trial version of MS Office 2003, as well as having it
pre-installed on the HDD. Once activated, you would have full functionality for
60 days I believe, after that, you would loose functionality of programs. You
needed to purchase a license from MS, before the 60 days was up, to change the
trial version into a full version. You need to contact Dell, and check on your
MS Office 2007 license/product key.

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I have a DELL OEM installation disk for Office 2007, however it seems that I
have installed this product too many times. Over the years I either had to
clean my system and re-install or installed on a newly purchased device in
which my last device was stolen.

Do I necessarily have to purchase a new disk to overcome this problem?
Please assist on how I can renew my product key for additional installations.

 

[Warrior - CILO]

No this is not a trial version. Microsoft is stating that I have exceeding
the amount of times in which I could install Office Small Business 2007. The
CD's came with the system, over the years I had to re-install the software
whenever my system had crashed or other. As per Microsoft, it is stated
somewhere in the license agreement that I can not install but so many times.

 

[DL]

You use phone activation, explain that you are clean installing on the
original PC
You can install as often as you like, but on line activation may not work

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Is that what they told you when you tried phone activation? There
apparently is a limit to the # of activations allowed, even by phone, but
with Outlook 2007 only 2 yrs old, I can't imagine you hit that limit yet,
unless you reformat/reinstall every couple of months or so. (I'm not sure
what the limit it, but I think its about 20 times.)

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