I have virtualized Microsoft Office 2010 v14.0.7015.1000 x86 using VMware ThinApp v5.1.x x86 installed on Windows 7 v6.1.7601 x86, and it is working flawlessly so far. I have also opted to create cmd.exe at the time of building the package which can read the virtual environment.

Whenever I try to activate the virtualized Office ThinApp or even try to check the number of days left before it runs out of grace period by executing the below command using the virtualised cmd.exe
cscript "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs" /dstatus

Every time I get the same error stating "The Software Protection Platform service is not installed"

Then I found out what is going on at https://communities.vmware.com/message/2356645#2356645

I don't know if I am describing it correct, but the "Office Software Protection Platform" needs to be running as a service and NOT ONLY as a process, and the process itself needs to be launched not by some local user but by Network Service.

When you launch a virtualized Microsoft Office App, the OSPP is launched as a process only called by the local user.

So,

How to emulate Office Software Protection Platform Service without installing Office on the host machine where the Office ThinApp need to be deployed.

I mean the commands/script to replicate the needed environment.

Thank you.