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A productivity suite from Microsoft, for which about every 3 years a new major release becomes available, like in 2003, 2007, 20010, and 2013. It can only be run on Windows computers.

A productivity suite from Microsoft, for which about every 3 years a new major release becomes available, like in 2003, 2007, 20010, and 2013. It can only be run on Windows computers.

MS Office is made available in several distinct editions aimed towards different markets. All traditional editions of MS Office contain the core applications:

More advanced editions contain applications such as:

For more details on MS Office, refer to http://products.office.com

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Respond to HTTP OPTIONS with basic auth

We have a web site hosting Office documents behind IIS6 Basic authentication. IE has an authentication token for basic auth, which it presents to download the file. The user clicks "Open", and then Microsoft Office Protocol Discovery does a HTTP…
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Microsoft Office 2007 OEM CD With Retail Version Product Key

Will a Microsoft Office 2007 OEM CD recognize a retail version product key?
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Redeploying Office to a single client after manual uninstall

One of our client PC's recently got random crash issues with MS Word. I manually uninstalled Office 2003 locally on the client, ran "gpupdate /force /boot" and expected the client to reinstall Office after rebooting. It didn't. I've ran gpupdate a…
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SCCM 2012 R2 detection method not working

I'm creating an SCCM 2012 R2 application for Office 365. The install works fine (exits with code 0), however the application fails on detection. In testing, I'm trying a registry detection (as per this TechNet article and a folder detection (since…
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Routing to KMS on another network/domain

This question is about KMS activation over a different network from the one my workstation is connected to. The software I am dealing with is Windows 7 Enterprise and MS Office 2013 Scenario I manage a LAN for my company. We have our own internal…
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What is the proper way to change the product key for Office 2010 Professional Plus?

I am trying to clone a VM. I've done sysprep successfully and all is well with my new box, except Office 2010 Professional Plus product key did not get wiped by sysprep (not too surprising), and I am unable to change the product key. When first…
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Activating MS Office 2013 Standard via KMS running on the same server

Given: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise 64-bit, all the latest security updates applied. KMS service set up and running, all the recommended updates applied (to handle possible activation issues for Windows 8 etc) Microsoft Office 2013…
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PowerPoint document locked - possibly reporting wrong user

I recently received a phone call from one of the users saying that her PowerPoint (Office 2007) presentation was locked and under edit by another (she was working remotely off of Citrix server), but the weird part is that the user who was supposedly…
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hardlink of ms word file getting hidden and not updated

I created a docx file in windows 7 with some text in it (initial.docx) and then I created a hardlink to it: mklink /H new.docx initial.docx I open new.docx and I can see the text that I initially typed in initial.docx. Now I type some more text in…
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Modifying Word's Normal template company-wide

We use Word 2003 on all computers; we also use Group Policy to set a shared "workgroup templates" folder, which is really useful as we can just copy .DOT files into there to make them accessible to all users. We have a company policy that all…
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How can I create an Office "all-in-one" DVD with all Office applications?

I have the DVDs (or downloaded ISOs, or archives) for the various Office products: stand-alone programs like Word and Excel, the full Office suite, and applications that are only bundled alone (Project, Visio). Can they be placed in a single DVD…
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Double Click to open Office docs is slow, File -> Open is fast

I have 2 unique networks. They both share similar architecture: Windows 2003 SBS SP2 Running Symantec Endpoint Running Symantec Information Foundation Shared drives off a data partition Clients running Office 2003 or 2007 Connect to file server…
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Excel file growing huge (>150 MB)

There is one particular Excel file that is used by a number of employees at my company. It is edited from both Excel 2003 and 2007, with the "Sharing" feature turned on to allow multiple writers at once. The file has a decent amount of data on…
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What software is out there for Video Conferencing within our LAN

We are looking at various Video Conferencing tools to have conferences mainly between two offices. There is a 10mibt connection directly from one to the other and both offices are on the same network. The web-based software we have tried usually…
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Powerpoint missing from DCOM config

I have an application that automates the creation of powerpoint files in an ASP.NET environment. This requires that I install powerpoint on the server and also set permissions in the DCOM configuration snap-in (dcomcnfg) to give permissions to the…
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