[RobOnTheCape]

I have a copy of MS Office and it has three licenses to split amongst the house. The question is how do I know what are the license #s already installed on the two other laptops in the house so that I don't get the notice from the program saying it won't open due to someone already using that license #?

Thanks

[harrisjamieh]

Cant you just put in a number, and if it comes up as 'used' then just type in another one?

[tooki]

No.

But if you have a license that allows three concurrent users, I would think that it would allow three users to run it simultaneously before saying that you exceeded the maximum number.

(On account of my school's site license, I was fortunate enough to get the "institutional" site-license version of Office that has the license key already embedded in the installer, and has no network serial checking.)

tooki

[scottiB]

My Office Education Edition had three different license codes to enter. I entered each on a different system. If you enter the same one on all the systems, you'll be butting heads across a network.

[RobOnTheCape]

When you entered the three different codes on the three machines, did you make a note as to which machine gets which code? Unfortunately I didn't. What my question is is how do you know which machine has which code so I'm not "butting heads" over a network.

Thanks

[kcmac]

What is weird about Office, it won't show you anywhere what your license is. That kinda stinks for the honest user.

[macintologist]

Just use a firewall program like Little Snitch or Brickhouse to block outgoing ports 2222 UDP and 3464 TCP. That should solve your problem.