This page is intended for technical support providers and network administrators. If you're not one of those, you should talk to your TSP or net admin before proceeding. The concept behind the procedure on this page is explained on our main KMS page.
This page describes how to manually activate products. With this method, you'll need to run commands on each machine - and for each software package - during the 30 day grace period after installation. If you are using virtual machines for testing and cross-compatibility on Macintosh computers, you'll need to use the manual method in those circumstances.
KMS activation can be blocked by a firewall. Please be sure that any firewalls between the client machine and the KMS server are open to incoming and outgoing traffic on TCP port 1688.
MS Office 2016 KMS activation. On the somber note, Activation of Microsoft office program for free is the miracle. Microsoft Office 2016 Activator is the updated version of Microsoft Office. There are added new core application tools including fundamental changes in few tools of them. New tools and the updated interface is demanded from the users.
To use this method, first install the software (Windows or Microsoft Office). As part of that process you'll be informed that you have 30 days to activate the product. Complete the steps below during that 30-day period.
Apr 20, 2021 Applies to: Volume licensed versions of Office 2019 and Office 2016, including Project and Visio There is a 25-day grace period from the time of installation of Key Management Service (KMS) clients before notifications to activate are displayed to the user. KMSpico activator is an installer which will register your Windows and Office on the PC and it runs in just 2 seconds. Once the application is installed on your PC, click on the buttons to activate all supported programs. A pop up will inform the user-written Successfully Activated. Kms Activar Office 2016 Grace 5,6/10 269 reviews This is a set of tools and functions for managing licensing, deploying, and activating Microsoft Office and Windows. All output from these functions is displayed in the Information Console. Office 2016 activation via KMS. The next way to activate Microsoft Office is to use the help of the KMS 2019 activator. This method is classified as very easy and has been proven able to overcome the warning of product activation failure in office 2016 and in other versions.
This method assumes that Windows or Office has never been activated on this machine before. If your machine had previously been activated with the earlier MAK activation method, please instead follow the instructions to switch from MAK to KMS activation.
And you're done for that installation of Windows on that computer.
And you're done for that installation of Office on that computer.
On a new Surface tablet, I removed the retail products and installed ProPlus from Volume Licensing. However, each Office application prompted for activation. When a product key was entered, the Office application would still report it was not activated.
The step-by-step explains how to use OSPP.VBS to resolve this issue.
In my Office 2016 case, that path was:
C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16
Example output:
---Processing--------------------------
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PRODUCT ID: 00339-23044-55497-AA566
SKU ID: c47456e3-265d-47b6-8ca0-c30abbd0ca36
LICENSE NAME: Office 16, Office16ProPlusVL_MAK edition
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 16, RETAIL(MAK) channel
LICENSE STATUS: ---LICENSED---
Last 5 characters of installed product key: WFHBB
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PRODUCT ID: 00200-70000-00000-AA156
SKU ID: d7279dd0-e175-49fe-a623-8fc2fc00afc4
LICENSE NAME: Office 16, Office16O365HomePremR_Grace edition
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 16, RETAIL(Grace) channel
LICENSE STATUS: ---NOTIFICATIONS---
ERROR CODE: 0xC004F009
ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the grace period expired.
Last 5 characters of installed product key: KHGM9
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---Exiting-----------------------------
In my case, I needed to remove the Office 16, Office16O365HomePremR_Grace edition item.
In my case, the Office 16, Office16O365HomePremR_Grace edition characters were:
Last 5 characters of installed product key: KHGM9
In my case:
cscript.exe ospp.vbs /unpkey:KHGM9
Output is as follows:
---Processing--------------------------
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Uninstalling product key for: Office 16, Office16O365HomePremR_Grace edition
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---Exiting-----------------------------
This is to confirm that the product key is removed. My output:
---Processing--------------------------
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PRODUCT ID: 00339-23044-55497-AA566
SKU ID: c47456e3-265d-47b6-8ca0-c30abbd0ca36
LICENSE NAME: Office 16, Office16ProPlusVL_MAK edition
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 16, RETAIL(MAK) channel
LICENSE STATUS: ---LICENSED---
Last 5 characters of installed product key: WFHBB
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---Exiting-----------------------------
Note we no longer see the Office 16, Office16O365HomePremR_Grace edition item.
This flummoxed me for two days. However, calling the Volume Licence Support line led to this quick fix.
866-230-0560
It's a known bug relating to the Microsoft Office Desktop Applications. Uninstall those and then go delete these two keys in the registry:
HKLMSOFTWAREWow6432NodeMicrosoftOffice16.0CommonOEM
HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftOffice16.0CommonOEM
Close all MS-Office applications and restart them. You don't need to reboot the PC.
Thanks a bunch, @Mike400. I appreciate your help. I'm going to try that now on yet another computer with an Office problem.
Hi mwhalenhtc, i worked on this problem over two weeks. I already removed the two OEM registry keys but still getting the activation popup.
The ospp.vbs works, Thanks :)