

- #Where to find office 2011 mac product key serial number#
- #Where to find office 2011 mac product key license#

Of course if your computer gets stolen or dies how are you supposed to do this? Adobe are even worse, if you forget to deactivate your originally installation first they can refuse to let you activate the new install.
#Where to find office 2011 mac product key serial number#
Your only recourse is to either go back to the original drive in the original Mac, or re-enter the serial number which will then be re-verified against Microsoft's product activation servers and then re-encoded and stored on your Mac including the encoded values for the Mac serial number and volume UUID. Kinguin - global digital marketplace that sells game keys with instant delivery 24/7.

Office 2008 used to merely check for a valid ist file in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/ist and that it contained a valid serial number and did not check this against the hardware for changes. You would have the same problem if you put the original unaltered drive in to a different Mac because then even though the volume UUID would be unchanged the serial number of the Mac logic board would be different.
#Where to find office 2011 mac product key license#
As you have restored it to a different drive that volume has a different UUID and hence the license file that was restored does not match your previous configuration. In this case it not only checks the serial number of the Mac, but also the Volume UUID of the volume it is being installed on. Office 2011 is a lot more sneaky about how it verifies the license.
