Activation
Microsoft Microsoft Office Professional 2013 KMS offered through Tufts is activated automatically . I when the installer package used has KMS settings (package is located in the software$ share).
In cases when the computer is not on joined to the domain, and the installer used has not been modified to have Tufts KMS settings, the autodiscovery will not work and the activation may will fail.Before you install Office 2013, you should make sure that your Windows operating system is set up with the correct Domain Suffix (tufts.edu or tufts.ad.tufts.edu) so that your license will properly activate
For KMS activation to work correctly:
- either use the KMS install files which has the kms host set.
- if the unmodified installer files are used, the system must be joined to the tufts domain for auto discovery to work. Otherwise, the kms host must be set manually using /sethst.
The official hostname for KMS is uitsckms.uit.tufts.edu.
Troubleshooting
How to check if my computer has the proper DNS suffix
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_vlmcs._tcp.localdomain
SRV service location:
priority = 0
weight = 0
port = 1688
svr hostname = tabvmsdlduitsckms.tuftsuit.ad.tufts.edu
If DNS lookup cannot locate the KMS server, Office will not be able to activate.
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cscript ospp.vbs /sethst tabvmsdld.tufts.ad:uitsckms.uit.tufts.edu |
then
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cscript ospp.vbs /act |
Verifying that outbound TCP port 1688 is open to the KMS server
Download and install the utility portqry.exe from Microsoft. It is a command line utility from Microsoft that reports the port status of a remote host.
From a command prompt, run the command:
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portqry.exe -n |
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uitsckms.uit.tufts.edu -p tcp -e 1688 |
The command will return "TCP port 1688 (unknown service): LISTENING" if the computer is able to communicate with the KMS server.