Hello qwertum,
The Office Genuine Advantage Notifications Utility is distributed as an important (but not critical secruity) update (KB949810) by Windows Update.
Depending upon the permissions levels given to the users in your organization, and the methods your organization uses to deploy Windows Updates, some of your computers may have the KB949810 update installed and some may not. If the update is not installed,
the only ways a user would be notified that the installation of Office on the computer is nongenuine would be if (a) they were to visit
www.microsoft.com/genuine and click on the Validate Office button, or (b) they were to visit the Office downloads site and choose to download some nice-to-have Office add-on that was "gated" by OGA---IOW the installation
of Office would have to be validated before the nice-to-have item could be downloaded. At one time gated content included many popular Office templates, but I think as time has gone by, there are fewer and fewer of the nice-to-haves are OGA-gated.
If the update is installed, then your users would indeed be seeing periodic notifications about nongenuine software.
The particular computer which generated the mgadiag report you posted should not be showing Notifications about nongenuine software upon startup of Office, but only because the OGA Notifier utility does not seem to be installed on the computer. The
part of the report below would spcecify the file versions of the OGA Notifier if it were installed:
OGA Notifications Data-->
Cached Result: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
Version: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
OGAExec.exe Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
OGAAddin.dll Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
The sample below (taken from someone else's post) is an example of what that section would look like if the OGA Notifier were installed:
OGA Notifications Data-->
Cached Result: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
Version: 2.0.48.0
OGAExec.exe Signed By: Microsoft
OGAAddin.dll Signed By: Microsoft
Nevertheless, the installation of Office on this computer is nongenuine. Here is a snippet of the report:
OGA Data-->
Office Status: 114 Blocked VLK 2
Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 - 114 Blocked VLK 2
OGA Version: N/A, 0x80070002
Signed By: N/A, hr = 0x80070002
Office Diagnostics: 77F760FE-153-80070002_7E90FEE8-175-80070002_B4D0AA8B-604-645_025D1FF3-230-1
The data above shows that the installation of Office is a Volume Licensing edition, and that it was installed with a widely pirated and now blocked Volume Licensing Key. The status of 114 Blocked VLK 2 is special status assigned
to installations of Office done with one of two particular VLKs. These keys are the keys that Microsoft issed to itself for the internal use of its own staff and employees--they keys were stolen and widely posted on the internet, so they have been
subsequently Blocked from further use. The 114 Blocked VLK 2 key for Office Professional 2003 ends in 3HFDY. You can use a keyfinder utility (such as the Magical Jellybean Keyfinder, Belarc Advisor, etc) to extract the key
and that is the one you will find on this computer.
I would suggest visiting http://www.microsoft.com/licensing/ and clicking on the link on the right side to contact a Microsoft VL specialist. They should be able to determine if your organization
does indeed have a current and valid Volume Licensing Agreement with Microsoft. If you do, then the task at hand would be doing whatever remediation is needed to uninstall nonlicensed product and install licensed product. If no valid license is
in place, they can help you get licensed.
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