Disabling Network Check for Office 2008
I was doing a search recently on how to disable the network check feature on Microsoft office 2008. I came across a post from december 2001 that said
and i was wondering if this trick is still valid for office 2008. Also is it supposed to be 4 2's or 3 2's in the command line because at first it says 222 and it says 2222 in the command line. thanks for any input.
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Originally Posted by Bogie 
It always goes over port 222 and then sends over a random one on 222 between 3000 and 4000. Just block 222 in the command line with this command:
sudo ipfw add 0 deny udp from any to any 2222
And then the check will not occur.
It always goes over port 222 and then sends over a random one on 222 between 3000 and 4000. Just block 222 in the command line with this command:
sudo ipfw add 0 deny udp from any to any 2222
And then the check will not occur.
and i was wondering if this trick is still valid for office 2008. Also is it supposed to be 4 2's or 3 2's in the command line because at first it says 222 and it says 2222 in the command line. thanks for any input.
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Office is "aware" of multiple running copies on a network and will shut them down if they exceed licensing limits.
yeah i got little snitch and i have all the ports blocked on word, works like a charm.
How do you go about blocking ports for Entourage while still making it functional. I've tried setting up a rule that only allows it to connect to the mail server, but it still seems to be checking the network thru other means. Can it possibly be running a helper app that does the checking?