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I have already asked a Licensing question related to Office, but this is slightly different. Essentially I'm an Apprentice and have recently been re-installing Windows on some PC's for a client then navigating to a share on one of their servers (basically following a commissioning sheet) and installing Office 2010.

Now at no stage has Office asked for a license and seems to have activated itself, and I'm wondering how licenses work in this situation? How Office knows the licenses to use etc without ever inputting a license?

Cheers!

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This is quite possibly an Enterprise licence and you have nothing to fear. – Randolph West Aug 16 '12 at 17:57
Is that licenses embedded into the installer then? How does it know? – TheD Aug 16 '12 at 17:58
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I'm not familiar with the MAK / KMS licences, but you're on the right track. If you're installing off a network, the administrator probably created an (un)attended installer which includes the licence key. That's how I'd do it anyway. – Randolph West Aug 16 '12 at 18:01
I just dug up this blog post and thought it related to your question: blogs.technet.com/b/odsupport/archive/2010/08/20/… – Oliver Salzburg♦ Aug 16 '12 at 19:08

closed as off topic by Nifle, techie007, MaQleod, Diogo, Randolph West Aug 17 '12 at 0:11

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