Office Find your Version and Licensing Information
KB ID 0000566 Problem Note: This is an OLD post, you might want to look at the following article instead; Finding Out Your Microsoft Office Licence Version I had some licencing issues a couple of weeks ago with Office 2010, and needed to check my version and licence details, thankfully Office 2010 comes with a VB script that makes this easy. Solution Getting your Office Version and Licence Details 1. Launch a command window (Right...
Word – Cannot Change the Default Language
KB ID 0000963 Problem I know Microsoft is from America, that’s fair enough, and they have built into Windows the ability to change the ‘locale’ and language. But its really annoying when you install Office and it just assumes you want an American dictionary. Now something like 80% of my visitors are American and they will probably be surprised that us limeys spell things differently, after all we all speak English...
Change/Add Office 2013 Product Key
KB ID 0000821 Problem Both ‘box product’ or retail versions of Office require you to add the key and activate them at install time. But volume licensed or MAK versions do not. This makes it easy for you to forget. If you use KMS that’s not a problem, by default they will licence themselves from there. However if you need to put in a MAK key this has to be done manually or office will start complaining. Solution 1. Launch...
Microsoft Lync Install Error “Prerequisite installation failed: Wmf2008R2”
KB ID 0000513 Problem Seen Installing Lync Server 2010 on Windows Server 2008 R2, during the “Setup or Remove Lync Server Components” phase of the Deployment Wizard. Error: Prerequisite installation failed: Wmf2008R2 Details Type: PreInstallFailed Solution Thankfully this is a know problem and Microsoft has addressed it with KB 2522454 1. Drop to command line and issue the following command: %systemroot%system32dism.exe...
Install and Configure Microsoft Lync 2010
KB ID 0000522 Problem A few weeks ago my boss asked me to take a look at Microsoft Lync. Because he was interested in the Lync Client (formally Microsoft Communicator) for instant messaging. Decent info is a bit thin on the net, and I don’t have the patience to read stupidly long PDF files. So to redress the balance I thought I would publish my findings below. Solution Note: The following procedure is carried out on Server 2008...
Microsoft Lync – Active directory operation failed on “Servername”. You cannot retry this operation: “Insufficient access rights to perform the operation”
KB ID 0000518 Problem Seen while trying to enable a user (who is an administrator) On Microsoft Lync. Error: Active directory operation failed on “Servername”. You cannot retry this operation: “Insufficient access rights to perform the operation” Solution I’m more used to seeing this problem on Exchange server to be honest, it happens because of a system called the AdminSDHolder. Which defines...
Lync 2010 – ‘The address book is preparing to synchronize. Search results might not be current’
KB ID 0000529 Problem Saw this on a brand new installation on my test bench, I left it overnight and the problem still did not resolve. Solution 1. On the Lync 2010 Server launch the “Lync Server Management Shell” and execute the following command: Update-CsAddressBook 2. Go and have a cup of coffee, then come back and check in the event logs, you should see, Event 21005 (Sync has Started), 21010 (Sync has completed),...
Error Adding Office KMS Keys “0x80072F8F”
KB ID 0000584 Problem Seen when adding an Office 2010 KMS key on a Windows 2008 R2 KMS Server. Note: Using the Microsoft Office 2010 KMS Host License pack as per this article. An error occurred: 0x80072F8F To display the error text run the following: slui.exe 0x2a 0x80072F8F Solution 1. If you do run the command that they have asked you to, all you get is; Code: 0x80072F8F Description: A Security error occurred 2. Not very helpful,...
KMS Activation – Error: 0xC004C008
KB ID 0000637 Problem KMS had been running fine for months, when we started seeing the following errors. When attempting to activate via slmgr Error: 0xC004C008 The activation server determined that the specified product key could not be used. When attempting to activate via Computer Properties. Code: 0xC004C008 Description: The activation server determined that the specified product key could not be used. Solution You need to make a...
IE9 – Stop “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons”
KB ID 0000466 Problem This morning my boss asked me “Why every time I open Internet Explorer does it ask me this?” To which I replied, “I use Chrome so I don’t know, But I’ll find out.” Solution A brief internet search returned, just set the “Ask me later to a nice long time”. But that’s still not disabling it. If truth be known its a good thing, i.e. is trying to be helpful and...