I had the same problem. For a reasonable fix: boot into XP via bootcamp and determine the physical MAC address (Start-Run; open:cmd;ipconfig/all. under Ethernet adapter Wireless Network Conneciton: the "physical address" ). Boot into MAC OS and open up parallels but don't run the VM so that you can edit it. Go to edit VM, under network adapter, change the MAC address to match the XP physical address. For me, this eliminated the request to activate while online in the vm. When I go back into xp native all is ok: no activation request. The only time an activation request comes up is when I am offline in the VM. It would be great if Parallels can fix this, but for now if I need to use Office 2007 offline, I will just boot into XP. Please fix this in the next build!!
Does this fix work for anyone else? Any ideas to work offline in the VM without an activation request?
Macbook Pro 2.4GHz;
2 GB RAM;
1GB dedicated to parallels;
Parallels build 4560;
Windows XP Pro
Last edited: Jul 23, 2007