I have on occasion retrieved old keys from my MSDN subscription although it's been a while. There was some request mechanism where you could ask for up to 3 keys at a time. Sadly I don't recall the details and of course this was not an Action Pack (r) subscription. Have you tried contacting the fine people at MS support?
-- rk -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 3:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [NF] Activating last year's downloads from Action Pack Looking for advice on dealing with Action Pack and older software. I've been an Action Pack subscriber for a number of years, and have a current sub. However, our clients aren't always the most prompt about keeping up with the most recent version of MS tools, (can you say "Vista?") so my machines typically lag a year or two or three behind the current versions. Usually, this isn't a problem, but I needed to replace a development workstation, and found I didn't have the activation keys for Office 2007. Got Win7 and many VFPs working fine, but really need Office for some automation processes. I'm thinking I tossed the paperwork during one of my very rare cleaning sessions. Most of my older disks have the activation keys written on them, just for this reason, but not that one. Microsoft seems to think that everyone only runs the latest versions of their software, so there are none of the older keys listed on their site. It might be nice if that were true, from a support standpoint. But that would require Microsoft actually ship software that works at the version-dot-zero level, without a service pack, and that it is so perfectly backwards-compatible that it runs all the solutions we've written years ago. Update: Installed Office 2013 Pro downloaded from the MS Partner Network, typed in my 20-character mixed number and letter key, and it is refusing to activate the software, "Something went wrong. Please try again later." I love when they treat me like an idiot. Einstein allegedly said, "Insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting different results." That seems to be a pretty good description, today. DRM seems to be a great way to annoy your customers and "partners" -- Ted Roche _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/DF1EEF11E586A64FB54A97F22A8BD04423C5A6BA88@ACKBWDDQH1.artfact.local ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
