Activating MS Office 2010 against a KMS server in Crossover Linux

This info comes from the Codeweavers page for MS Office 2010, but it didn't come up when I searched for it...

To activate MS Office 2010, running in Crossover Linux, against a KMS:

• Start the "Manage Bottle" dialog from your CX installation, select your Office 2010 bottle, click on Run Command and type "regedit".

• Navigate to HKEYLOCALMACHINE\Software\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform

• Create the following 2 keys via Edit -> New -> Key: String Value:

  • KeyManagementServiceName: (license server hostname)
  • KeyManagementServicePort: (license server port -- 1688 is the default)

• Keep regedit open and start any MS Office application (i.e. Word).

• Go to HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-20\Software\Microsoft\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform

• Insert the following key via Edit -> New -> Key: Binary Value

  • VLRenewalSchedule: (any value at all -- I just inserted "1")

• Restart the office application; it should now be activated. You can check that by going to File -> Help.