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Office 2010: Rearm an installation before activation

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By Ivan Versluis

An Office 2010 deployment can reach the end of its activation grace period when no KMS server is available. Like Windows Vista and Windows 7, Office 2010 requires product activation. The Microsoft Office Activation Wizard may then show this message:

This copy of Microsoft Office is not activated.

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Rearm Office 2010

I am not ready to activate this installation, so I will use the rearm feature in Office 2010.

  1. Open an elevated command prompt (cmd.exe).
  2. Go to C:\Program Files\Common Files\microsoft shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform
  3. Run OSPPREARM.EXE.

After OSPPREARM.EXE runs, you will see the message “Microsoft Office rearm successful”.

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