MS Office 2007: Find Volume License info

You can use a tool like System Information for Windows to retrieve the key used to install office.  www.gtopala.com (SIW)

As for where to get the media, you can call Microsoft and ask them to send you a copy for $30 - or you can go to eopen.microsoft.com and, using the account that was registered with the licenses, log in and download the media (ISO images).

If you don't have the account info, you'll have to call Microsoft and see if they can reset things for you.

I tried using SIW, but it doesn't seem to tell me how many users are activated.

I said you could use SIW "to retrieve the key used to install office" - it's not going to tell you how many are activated - I don't know of anything that will - this is why proper management is important - otherwise, you're stuck with manual legwork to figure it out.  Get the key used on all your PCs and then count the number using your volume license key.

As I mentioned in the original post, I already have the key.

Is there really no way to find out for how users the MSOffice Installation on a Win2k3 server is licensed?

Let me try to put this a different way:

Office has NO special log or automated counting that you can have access to to determine how many licenses are used.  Your COMPANY must be diligent in keeping RECORDS.  IF THEY ARE NOT, then YOU need to check the key used ON EACH INSTALLED COMPUTER, NOTE what it was, THEN, COMPARE the list it to the Volume License Key you have and the number of licenses you have FOR THAT KEY.  In that way, you can tell how many times it was used.  If you've done installs off the server with copied/modified source in a share on the server, then NO, it STILL does NOT track how many installation attempts you have done.  

If you are checking on a terminal server, this is somewhat easier - the number of used licenses on a Terminal Server are equal to the number of Terminal Server CALs you have.

Licenses do not have access to the Microsoft Activation servers to determine which computers the software was installed on - and they can't use that information to tell you - among other things, it would be unreliable since a machine could crash or stop using the software (have it uninstalled).

So to say again, I know YOU have (know) the license key - now you have to get an inventory of WHAT LICENSE KEY is being used on all your systems and add it up.  THEN count the number of times your known license key appears - THAT will tell you how many installations using that particular license you have.

>If you are checking on a terminal server, this is somewhat easier - the number of used licenses on a >Terminal Server are equal to the number of Terminal Server CALs you have.

That's what I wanted to know, thanks!

So if I have a TS with 5 CALS, I couldn't, say, install it for 4 specific domain users, and then use the remaining license on another computer?

[increasing to 500 points for being complicated and generally annoying..]

For terminal services, you need as many licenses installed as you have TS CALs because you COULD have up to that many people running the software at the same time.

(You never mentioned terminal services until that last comment!)