Office 2010: cannot verify the license for this product

Due to continuous Access errors, I decided to reinstall Office Professional 2010 (64 bit).

As I couldn’t find the original CD key I installed it with, I used another one from another installation. So far so good, installation went fine, etc.

Once I started any Office app, it popped up this error: “Microsoft Office professional plus 2010 cannot verify the license. blablabla useless crap check control panel”

I’ve tried:

  • Reenter CD key (via setup)
  • Repair Office
  • Install every single item I could select during the install
  • Remove office + reinstall office
  • Removed CD key with this
  • Reboot over a zillion times
  • Cursed

None of this worked.

However, this seems to fix it for me:

  1. Open command
  2. cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
  3. cscript ospp.vbs /act
  4. reopen any Office. No more errors. Yay

 


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41 responses to “Office 2010: cannot verify the license for this product”

  1. Ray avatar
    Ray

    it really helps

  2. Michael avatar
    Michael

    Cool. Works for me too.
    Many thanks.

  3. dj avatar
    dj

    Worked for me – thank you for posting. Also, since I was using the 32 bit version of Office 2010 I had to go into C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office 14\ to run the script.

  4. Warren avatar
    Warren

    You guys rock. DJ, thanks for the add-on. I needed it.

  5. Johannes avatar
    Johannes

    hi guys, i went to “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14” but i cant find “cscript ospp.vbs /act”, which i need to fix the problem, thanks

  6. Yeri Tiete avatar

    You need to run it via cmd (start > run > cmd). And it might be in “Program Files (x86)”

  7. bylmy avatar
    bylmy

    I really dont know how to say thank you!!! It is works unbeliveable!

  8. edickey21 avatar

    Did not work for me on a Windows 8 system. still get the same error and when you press OK it closes any Office14 program you might be trying to open.

  9. asdasd avatar
    asdasd

    Amazing mate thanks a million

  10. Mark Hardiman avatar
    Mark Hardiman

    What a legend! I have been dealing with this s**t at work for the longest time when rebuilding workstations from images. Your solution worked for me. Cheers mate.

  11. Ed Gray avatar
    Ed Gray

    Thanks so much, this worked PERFECTLY on two systems I just had this occur with. I posted a summary to a Microsoft forum which had a long thread but nowhere, mentioned such a simple fix

  12. Daniel avatar
    Daniel

    THANK YOU

  13. Daniel avatar
    Daniel

    I am getting the same error on Microsoft 2013 can any1 help

    1. dzani avatar
      dzani

      It voeks

  14. Manny avatar
    Manny

    I am using the Windows 2008 server and I am having issue with office pro plus 2012 as follows.

    ” Office pro plus 2010 can not verify the license for this product. You should repair the office program by using control panel”

    I did the repair as mention above but still same issue.

  15. Iaim2xl avatar
    Iaim2xl

    Your a gem! Keep up the good work & THANKS.

  16. aurel avatar
    aurel

    i really don’t understand how to run this. can someone explain step by step… windows 7

  17. Nige avatar
    Nige

    Brilliant…thank you

  18. Rick Mays avatar
    Rick Mays

    Thank you! Wish I’d come across this 3 hours ago! In my case ospp.vbs was in program files (x86) and I had to include the path to cscript (c:\windows\system32). After figuring that out it worked beautifully!

  19. RXY avatar
    RXY

    WHAT THE HELL DO I ACTUALLY WRITE INTO THE BLOODY COMMAND PROMPT. FFFFFF

  20. Macwan avatar
    Macwan

    I am getting error as below

    ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Activation server determined the specified product key has been blocked.

  21. Jessica avatar
    Jessica

    AWESOME!! Thank you!

  22. Thuhaib avatar
    Thuhaib

    working fine
    thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks 🙂

  23. stretchie204 avatar

    Great work, fixed the problem. Thanks for your input!

    For me the file was in c:\program files (x86)\Microsoft office\office14\

  24. keir avatar
    keir

    i dnt get it. what should i do?

  25. Yeri Tiete avatar

    This:

    – Open command
    – cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14
    – cscript ospp.vbs /act
    – reopen any Office app.

    That’s it.

  26. M Hough avatar
    M Hough

    Thank you! I’ve been fighting this problem for a month and was ready to wipe out my system.

  27. lonely rivulet avatar

    After opening Office 14.. what should we do with.. cscript ospp.vbs /act this..??

  28. Praveen Kumar avatar
    Praveen Kumar

    D:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform\ospprearm.exe will reset it

    1. farahnur shahnaz zakaria avatar

      Thanks a lot!!!! It helps me

  29. lucky avatar
    lucky

    help guy I cant find that cscript ospp.vbs/act

  30. Max avatar

    You rock! Thanks so much from Canada.

  31. earl avatar
    earl

    this worked for me too, thanks for the help!

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  33. info avatar
    info

    excellent fix.. worked right away.. had been looking for 2 hours.. thank you so much for posting this… you DO rock!!!

  34. Ritz avatar
    Ritz

    Thank you..u r the best!

  35. kristoforus avatar

    Thank you useful post

  36. Dusan avatar
    Dusan

    Great 🙂

  37. Christopher avatar
    Christopher

    Thank you! This helped perfectly. Remember for those to add (x86) if you have the 32bit Office installed there. Official support couldn’t help shit, yet some random post here did.

  38. J avatar
    J

    wow i was scared to run this because who knows whose page this is and what nefarious things they could have in mind…but i was so desperate I gave it a shot. It worked!!! Thank You!!!

    Scared to reboot now though…fingers crossed

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