![]() ![]() So, having plenty of time, my cell phone charged, my W10 PC computer open, and the Mini running, I started the MicroSoft phone activation process: Internet connectivity via ethernet was confirmed and streamed HBOmax no problem. I doubt the server is just "temporarily" unavailable as EOL support was. Original authentic Product Key entered: > "Online activation did not complete successfully because the activation server is temporarily unavailable". So: Installation via Office 2011 original disc went without any hitch until an attempt to activate. High Sierra seems to be much-maligned for it being the first all-64bit MacOS and thus is the unrefined guinea pig for the switch to 64 and APFS file system. Micro$oft would be happy to subscribe you to M$ 365 and get the steady gravy train started. Many people on forums state that it will / it won't. Apple's initial guidance at the introduction of High Sierra was "Nope". There is much conflicting opinion on whether Office 2011 (which is 32bit) will run on High Sierra. There are a copies installed on my kids two ancient Macs and this installation, as before on the HDD, would be the 3rd. It would not "Activate" with my Product Key that has worked before. I have a Retail Stand-Alone box of M$ Office: Mac 2011 Home and Student, 3 Licenses. I now have a clean-install of High Sierra 10.13.6, which is the maximum MacOS that will run on this unit. Internet Recovery could not install High Sierra, I guess bc it's no longer supported, so once again installation was via USB etc. Formatting/Installation of the SSD using Disc Utility went well. ![]() I still have no clear consensus on TRIM enable/not enabled. I swapped out the HDD for an OWC Mercury 3G SSD after much investigation re: which SSD should be expected to work with the fewest hiccups. With some recent downtime, I made a stab at upgrading the system again. All went well installing onto the OEM 320GB HDD. Those were my first experiencse with Terminal commands ( the ". I cannot remember the details, but i believe I updated in-place to Lion and then Mtn Lion via discs, then to Mavericks via USB and then to El Capitan again via USB. I have very little MacOS experience, I only obtained this system to tinker about and to help understand/problem-shoot my two kids' 2009 Mac Mini's as well as having the belief, in 2013 when I got it second-hand, that somehow it would integrate/synch with my first iPhone better than any Windows system. Mac Mini 4,1 ~ mid 2010, 4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 320M Reinstalling MicroSoft Office for Mac: 2011 after clean MacOS install on new SSD in old system Click to expand.kind of long, but i hope this helps: ![]()
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