visual studio .net general: Hi all, apologies if this is the wrong newsgroup!

Anyone know what MS are doing about this?

Looks like I am not alone!

http://weblogs.asp.net/mlafleur/archive/2006/11/14/Office-2007-Product-Key-Problems.aspx

Many thanks.

(I'll use the right newsgroup next time!)

Cheers

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From your question, I'll assume that you have a MSDN subscription.
There were posts in MSDN public newsgroups that address the issue, which
I'll quote here:

<quote>
Office 2007 Product Keys from Subscriber Downloads

Many Office 2007 applications were recently posted to Subscriber
Downloads, however a unique product key was not posted for each product.
Although these product keys are worth several activations, once a
product key is used to activate a particular Office application, it can
only be used to activate additional installations of the same
application. For example, a single key was posted for Office Project
2007 and Office Visio 2007, however once the product key is used to
activate an Office Project 2007 installation, it can only be used to
activate other Office Project 2007 installations.



Additional product keys are expected to made available from the
Subscriber Downloads' Product Keys page on Tuesday November 21st, 2006.
When the additional product keys are posted:

* The existing Office 2007 Desktop Programs key will be renamed
to be the key for Office SharePoint Designer 2007. If you have already
used this key to activate a different desktop program, please make a
note to swap the two keys. For example, if you activated an Office
Groove 2007 installation with the original Desktop Applications key,
please use the new Office Groove 2007 key to activate any Office
SharePoint 2007 installations.

* The Project Professional 2007 / Visio Professional 2007 key
will be renamed to be the key for Project Professional 2007. Again, if
you already used this key to activate Visio Professional 2007, you will
have to use the new Visio Professional 2007 key to activate any Project
Professional 2007 installations.



If you require an additional product key before November 21st, please
contact customer service.



The following groups of products are affected by this issue:



Product Key: Office 2007 Desktop Programs

Office Groove 2007

Office InfoPath 2007

Office InterConnect 2007

Office OneNote 2007

Office Access 2007

Office Outlook 2007

Office Publisher 2007

Office SharePoint Designer 2007



Product Key: Project Professional 2007 / Visio Professional 2007

Office Project Professional 2007

Office Visio Professional 2007
</quote>

If this is insufficient, you should contact MSDN directly. You also may want
to subscribe to newsgroups such as:

microsoft.public.msdn.general

as a source of information.

--
Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.

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You won't find many "on topic/off topic" self-appointed cops in the
Microsoft public groups, Mark :)
You're always welcome. My suggestion was only so you'd get faster responses
to any future MSDN questions you might have.

Happy holidays!