Change Office 2010 MAK activation to KMS

Hi,
I have a computer with Office 2010 Standard installed and activated with a MAK key
I need to change the activation from MAK to KMS, in all my computers.
I already have a server with KMS host installed and my DNS configured.
How can I do?

Check the following steps listed in the link:
http://kb.wisc.edu/page.php?id=13994
In addition, you can refer to the thread below:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/1db5b305-510c-4800-ab1f-e0647cc8a877/trying-to-switch-from-mak-to-kms-activation?forum=winserversetup
Tylor Wang
TechNet Community Support

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Not sure if this is the right part of the forum, but I'll try!
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Originally Posted by dcampisi
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Max -
No offense intended, but while I agree that this could be the case, your answer is for XP and I find it lacking a good solution with a rather bland explanation.
I'm seeing this problem with Windows 7, but we are not using a KMS, however the OPPSVC does run rather frequently, as seen in the Event Logs.
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c:\Windows\System32>cscript slmgr.vbs -dli bfe7a195-4f8f-4f0b-a622-cf13c7d16864
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.8
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Error: product key not found.
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Mr Mister

Hi,
We might consider to use Volume Activation Management Tool to check the Activation Information:
Reporting Activation Information Using Volume Activation Management Tool 2.0
Or we could take a look into the application log for event ID 12288, 12289 as well as 12290. (the 12288 and 12289 should be in pairs: client query-kms response)
More information, please take a look at the below articles:
How to determine whether the KMS server is working
Windows Event Log
Hope this may help
Best regards
Michael
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Hi
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To determine if you are encountering this you can use the Key Management Service Log do the following:
1.On your KMS host open Event Viewer
2. Right click the Key Management Service Log and choose “Save all events as”
3. Change the Save as type to Text(Tab Delimited)(*.txt)
4. Save the file as KMS.TXT
5. Close out of the Event Viewer completely
6. Open Excel
7. Click File, Open, and browse to KMS.TXT
8. You should see the Text Import Wizard. Choose the following options
    Delimited
    Start Import at Row: 8
    Delimiters: Comma
9. When complete the data may look all messed up. Don’t worry we will correct that
10. Click the upper left of the spreadsheet to select the entire spreadsheet
11. Click Data, Sort, In the Sort By selection choose “Column D”
12. When complete you should see the data sorted in columns.
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http://blogs.technet.com/b/askcore/archive/2009/10/16/kms-host-client-count-not-increasing-due-to-duplicate-cmid-s.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2011/06/15/deploying-volume-activation-for-office-2010.aspx
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hi,
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One of doing this would be to use Compliance Settings.
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I have a volume license for 17 seats for MS Office 2010 Professional Plus, along with a MSDN license which authorizes us to have 50 seats.
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Hi, this is a public/community forum, not an official support channel, but we can try to help you.
VL editions of Office can be activated by either KMS product key (the default pre-embedded key) or by MAK product key.
KMS doesn't require any kind of web connection at any time (you could activate your KMS host by telephone activation. Your KMS clients then contact your KMShost only, via your internal network. No internet connection is needed)
Or, you can use MAK. MAK requires you to "install" your CSVLK product key in each computer (overwriting the pre-embedded KMSclient pkey) and then activate each computer. You can activate MAK installations via internet or telephone.
Typically, once an MAK pkey is activated, it remains activated, unless the computer is subjected to "hardware changes" or some form of data restore or recovery.
Although you don't have KMS implemented, you do seem to have enough computers (the minimum is 5) to consider KMS.
6 months is an interesting milestone. 180 days is exactly the timeframe for a KMSclient to become unlicensed if it been unable to contact a KMShost.
Perhaps you could check the current licensing configuration/status on a couple of computers, to confirm their current situation?
- on a computer, open an elevated (run as admin) CMD console
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This will produce the text file, showing all *possible* Office licenses, and the currently installed one should show as "Licensed".
You can post the results back here for us to review for you. (there is only a partial pkey displayed, so nothing sensitive will be revealed)
Don
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MAK key asking to activate Office 2010 every 90 days?

Here's a good brain dumper! I have 40 HP laptops that our students use occaisionally with a volume-license. So they are off network most of the time. We set them up on MAK keys instead of our KMS. We use a program called
Deep Freeze so that the PC configuration can not change once it has been set up and frozen. As I understand, the MAK key activation is forever. So why would Office 2010 be asking us to activate every 90 days. This takes a tech 2-3 days to
unfreeze--activate again--and then freeze the PC once more.
Any thoughts?

Hi Carey Carter,
As far as I know, Deep Freeze is a kernel-level driver that protects hard drive integrity by redirecting information being written to the hard drive or partition, leaving the original data intact.
If one hard disk fails and it is replaced, that computer must be reactivated.
You can refer to this article for more detail information:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff678211(v=office.14).aspx
If there is anything I can do for you regarding this issue, feel free to post back.
Best regards,
Greta Ge
TechNet Community Support
It's recommended to download and install
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