[AccessD] Windows 8 Tablet and Access/Office 2010

Hi Charlotte

If your Office install is an OEM install, it is Samsung business. If your install is a purchase at the app store, it is Microsoft.

However, an OEM (trial) install should be preinstalled. If you then later download a retail Office, you probably have a mixed installation where Office can't sort the license keys out. If so, we've been able to solve it this way in Win7. Should be same though with Win8 Desktop:

Find ospp.vbs in the Office14 folder under Program Files\Microsoft Office.

Run as Administrator:
  cscript ospp.vbs 
to obtain a list of all parameters.

Run this with /dstatus: 
  cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus
You will then se all PKCs in use incl. the original of the (trial) OEM version as well as the newest which perhaps is activated.

Remove all not usable product keys one by one with:
    cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:XXXXX
where XXXXX is the last five characters in the product key from the status list.

If the installed full PCK perhaps isn't activated, it can be done right away:
    cscript ospp.vbs /act

Voilá! Open Word or Excel; under Help everything about a trial license is gone.

/gustav


> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust
> Sent: Monday, December 31, 2012 11:25 AM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem
> Subject: [AccessD] Windows 8 Tablet and Access/Office 2010
>
> I bought myself a new Samsung Tablet PC with Windows 8 and I'm sure glad I
> didn't upgrade my laptop!  Once you get used to Win 8, it's not completely
> awful, but the desktop screams for a mouse and keyboard.  The virtual
> keyboard works fine in the Metro UI, but it's very awkward in desktop and
> you still need a mouse unless you know a LOT of keyboard shortcuts that are
> less than easily memorized.  I like the bluetooth mouse and keyboard options
> but I wrestled with the darn thing for a week before I bought those.
>
> It's painfully slow to download Office to the tablet and when I did, I
> discovered that even though the license allowed me to install on up to 3
> devices, the tablet wouldn't accept the product key used for the computer!
>  Microsoft help pointed at the computer OEM (not Samsung) and the OEM told
> me to call Microsoft.  GRRrrrrrrrrr  I finally bought a new copy of Access
> and downloaded and installed that.  I'd still like to install Office on
> there (I think), at least Word and Excel, but I'm not sure the tablet is up
> to the load.  Any suggestions or insight?  I hate breaking new ground like this!!
>
> Charlotte