Office 2007 Beta

[Guest]

Installed Office 2007 Beta today but when I try to activate, Office says I'm
not connected to the internet whereas I clearly am. I've tried disabling all
firewalls - any suggestions?

 

[Pat Willener]

Please use the designated beta newsgroup(s) to discuss or ask questions
about beta software.

 

[Guest]

Would if I could find one - any pointers?

Please use the designated beta newsgroup(s) to discuss or ask questions
about beta software.

 

[BillR [MVP]]

The Community site for beta 2 currently links here. You can post here.
I'm not sure on your activation issue - stay tuned.

 

[Guest]

Same issue. "Can't find internet connection." Already down to 42 uses left.
Guess I can just leave them all open, huh?

A hurry would be nice.

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

it activated fine for me on windows xp (tablet) but I'm getting that error
on vista. I'm guessing it's a firewall thing?

 

[Marco]

Same issue for me - but when I check my connection settings I see that I am
indeed connecting to 131.107.115.36 on port 443. I'll be watching this
space!

Anyway first impressions are that this is gonna be pretty nice software!

 

[Guest]

Same problem here.

Windows XP Professional X64.

Same issue. "Can't find internet connection." Already down to 42 uses left.
Guess I can just leave them all open, huh?

A hurry would be nice.

 

[Guest]

I am having the same issues! Going to look at windows xp sp2 firewall.

 

[Guest]

Glad to see it's happening to a lot of other people. I tried de-activating
the firewall. no luck there. Some pointers on this soon would be nice. 38
uses and counting.

 

[Guest]

Yes, same problem here. Activation fails and I believe that results in a
reduction of functionality. I cannot send mail (client does not support
authorization methods) and certain functions like 'purge deleted message' on
the menu bar seem to be disabled. And yes, I am connected to the Internet
(hence this message). I have also tried activating from Word2007 with the
same error message.

 

[Guest]

I'm having the same issue. I tried it on both my computers and no luck
activating...

I wonder if microsoft is working on this or if we're even asking questions
in the right place???

 

[Guest]

There are **LOTS** of messages about this on the general Office discussion
group. Concensus seems to be that this is an issue with the Microsoft
validation server. However, I have yet to see any 'official' response from
Microsoft but there are hundreds of messages about this issue. I suspect they
are aware of it.

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Give it time, it's a known issue. The servers are overloaded.

 

[Guest]

Yes indeed. I have the same issue. I've tried activating a number of Office
products, shut down my firewall and antivirus, clear open channel to the
internet and I am receiving the same error as all of you. Mr. Slovak seems
to have the best reasoning in that the servers are overloaded.

t.

 

[Ole.Moskaug]

I also have this problem. argh..

tedgardener skrev:

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

That's what we were told by MS. Some people are beginning to report
activation success after many tries, just keep trying at intervals.

 

[Guest]

I can see that a lot of people have same problem , but what is solution for
it ?

 

[Ken Slovak - [MVP - Outlook]]

Keep trying.

 

[Guest]

Successful activation at 8:25PM Central Time

Keep trying.