To activate Office at installation time can be the preferred method when installing operating system via SCCM in a production environment. You would expect this to be an option in the Office Customisation Tool but after much searching you may find that it doesn’t appear as a listed item.

You need to add the following entry into the Modify Setup properties giving the Property Name AUTO_ACTIVATE and a Value of 1 this will make sure that you copy of office gets registered and negates the requirement of a manual step after installation.

John Riseam

System Center Consultant

Risual Ltd