Office 2016 Mac Reset Activation

Clear Office credentials and activation state for managed devices. The above steps reset the Office activation for unmanaged devices (Domain Joined aka DJ). In a managed environment, more locations store credentials. Devices are considered managed if they're Azure AD Joined (AADJ), Hybrid Azure AD Joined (HAADJ), or Workplace Joined (WPJ). From any of the office products click on the left arrow in the top left of the product, then click on ' Office Account ' Click on ' Manage Account ' to login to your Office 365 or Office 2016/19 account Once signed in, navigate to ' software ' Then click on ' Install '. Clear Office credentials and activation state for managed devices. The above steps reset the Office activation for unmanaged devices (Domain Joined aka DJ). In a managed environment, more locations store credentials. Devices are considered managed if they're Azure AD Joined (AADJ), Hybrid Azure AD Joined (HAADJ), or Workplace Joined (WPJ).

Office 2016 Mac Activation

The Differences Between MAK and KMS Keys. First of all, you need to understand how the MAK Office activation differs from KMS.Microsoft offers two types of activation of its products to corporate customers under the Volume License program—MAK (Multiple Activation Key) and KMS (Key Management Service).

Having been on Microsoft Office 365 for a few months now, we started to notice that when users who had activated software on a PC were removed from Office 365, the software would go into 'grace period' and would continually notify the new user of the PC that there was a problem. The trouble was I could not figure out how to reassign the software license to the new user. Finally I have found steps that will accomplish this without having to repair/reinstall office.

5 Steps total

Step 1: Open Command Prompt on PC

Open a Command Prompt window, and then take one of the following actions:

• If you installed the 64-bit version of Office 2016, move to the following folder: C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice16
• If you installed the 32-bit version of Office 2016, move to the following folder: C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16

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Step 2: Display the Current License(s)

Type the following command to display the license status. Note the last five characters of any and all license keys that display in the output:

cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus

Step 3: Remove the License(s)

Now run the following command as many times as needed to remove all of the license keys you noted from the previous step.

cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:

Step 4: Restart the Computer

Once the remove commands are successfull, close the command prompt and restart the PC.

Step 5: Reactivate MS Office 2016 with New Account

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Once the remove commands are successfull, close the command prompt and restart the PC.

Step 5: Reactivate MS Office 2016 with New Account

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Launch one of the MS Office 2016 applications (I like to use Word). The application should prompt you to reactivate the by providing your sign-on ID. Enter in the new user's credentials and the software will now be licensed under their ID.

This should also work on 2013 if you modify the path to end with 'Office15'

34 Comments

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  lueo Jan 4, 2014 at 07:01am

  Trying to find a way to remove expired license of O365 for 2 days, even Microsoft didn't provide a comprehensive way to remove it.

  Your method works great for me. Thanks for sharing! Naruto episode 1 english dub dailymotion.

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  Amr9983 Jan 17, 2014 at 04:47pm

  Step 5 didnt work with me so i would do this instead
  cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:value
  Install a product key (replaces existing key) with user-provided product key. Value parameter applies.
  

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  mtndewwatkins Jan 22, 2014 at 09:27pm

  Thanks a bunch this is super important for any version of Office when use acronis our keys get mixed up on a reformat, but this saved me the hassle of uninstalling and re installing office.

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  Tdawg1982 May 9, 2014 at 06:10pm

  Anyone have an idea on a way to script this out and run across a network?

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  Under Dog May 22, 2014 at 07:10pm

  So is this how home users are regulated when they are terminated or move to another company? Will their software enter a grace period and then stop working? That would be great.

• Habanero
  Lauren7060 May 22, 2014 at 07:13pm

  Yes, there is a grace period. I am forgetting how long, but I want to say 90 days?! Once the grace period is up they have the choice of using it in limited mode or entering their own activation key.

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  renxxxx May 31, 2014 at 02:14am

  I'm new to this , I opened command promp, next to what originally pops up C:Usersxxxx> I did not skp a space I continued to put in as seen here C:Usersxxxx>C:Program FilesMicrosoftOfficeOffice15 Then I hit enter, I tried the 64bit 1st then the 32bit I get both with error saying, is not recongnized as an internal or external command. operable program or batch file, I even tried after the C:Usersxxxx> separating the MicrosoftOfficeOffice15 to Microsoft OfficeOffice15 still does not work. any help please.
  If you can help with this please shoot me an email at just2wicked2008 @ gmail.com I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

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  wayneng Aug 6, 2014 at 12:07am

  I accidentally registered/associated an Office 2013 product key to my Microsoft account. The software has not been installed on my computer.

  So I should skip Steps 1 to 4 ?
  But the software is not installed, so I can't really follow Step 5 ?

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  James Montz Aug 8, 2014 at 07:51pm

  Saved me a lot of work and time. Thank you for contributing.

• Habanero
  Lauren7060 Aug 11, 2014 at 12:36pm

  wayneng - you should be able to remove the association on your account through the Office365 portal (https://login.microsoftonline.com). Under software it shows the systems it is installed on and then you can 'remove' any of the systems from there. This does not uninstall the software (which is fine in your case) it just deactivates that license.

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  Jason Mack Oct 14, 2014 at 02:44pm

  Thank you! This worked great because my HUP Office Pro showed an activated license and trial license under the Account tab. I used your instructions to remove the trial license.

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  kellygreen2 Oct 21, 2014 at 09:39am

  Well, thanks very much. But what I use is the SmartKey Product Key Recovery and it works for me. You can google search 'smartkey product key recovery' to find more details about it.

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  sweettie Nov 24, 2014 at 04:45am

  Very easy to download microsoft 2013 and it works 100%,just only search @@@windows 8.1 key sale@@@ on bing.

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  johndoe26 Jan 5, 2015 at 07:40pm

  The following script will find the product key for O365 (ProPlus in this case) and unlicensed the product. Its in powershell so you can invoke-command it against a remote workstation as you need to by doing the following from a PS prompt:

  invoke-command -computername -credential (get-credential) -filepath

  *** the credential portion will ask you for credentials make sure the ones you use have admin rights on the workstation ***

  Here is the script:

  # store the license info into an array
  $license = cscript ‘C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /dstatus

  #license name from /dstatus
  $o365 = 'OfficeO365ProPlusR_Subscription1 edition'

  #loop till the end of the array searching for the $o365 string
  for ($i=0; $i -lt $license.Length; $i++){

  Best audio equalizer software for mac. if ($license[$i] -match $o365){

  $i += 6 #jumping six lines to get to the product key line in the array, check output of dstatus and adjust as needed for the product you are removing
  $keyline = $license[$i] # extra step but i would rather deal with the variable as a string than an array, could be removed i guess, efficiency is not my concern
  $prodkey = $keyline.substring($keyline.length – 5, 5) # getting the last 5 characters of the line (prodkey)

  }
  }

  #removing the key from the workstation
  cscript ‘C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice15OSPP.VBS' /unpkey:$prodkey

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  jjstephens Jul 1, 2015 at 09:41am

  Good Day please help i have no idea how to do the script stuff and i cant really do it so i need to fix his outlook please make it easy for me

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