You don't have to enter a product key for each Office installation if you're activating Office by using KMS or Active Directory. For more information, see Volume Activation for Windows 10 and Volume Activation Overview.Īll volume licensed versions of Office, including Project and Visio, have a preinstalled product key, called a Generic Volume License Key (GVLK), that can be used for KMS and Active Directory-based activation. Because these three activation methods are also used to activate volume licensed versions of Windows, you might be able to use the same method to activate both Windows and Office. You can choose to use different activation methods for different versions of Office and for different computers, for example desktops and laptops. Which activation method you choose depends on the size, network infrastructure, connectivity, and security requirements of your environment. Multiple Activation Key (MAK): Office is activated online by Microsoft-hosted activation servers or by telephone.Īctive Directory-based: Office on a domain-joined computer is activated through Active Directory. Key Management Service (KMS): Office is activated by contacting a KMS host computer on your network.
There are three different methods that you can activate volume licensed versions of Office, including Project and Visio: Volume activation is the process that Microsoft volume licensing customers use to automate and manage the activation of Windows operating systems, Microsoft Office, and other Microsoft products across large organizations. The ISO I'm getting from MSDN and the VL site is: en_office_professional_plus_2016_x86_圆4_dvd_6962141.If you're a user trying to activate a personal copy of Office at home, see Activate Office instead of reading this article. Or is there something I'm missing using the C2R install/iso from the VL site? Maybe customize with setup.exe /admin? Something that will auto activate to KMS. This is the exact same ISO I pulled form MSDN.Īm I missing something? Shouldn't there be a MSI based Office 2016 Pro Plus ISO I can use to install. When you click setup.exe it just runs, installs and then prompts for a 365 login toĪctivate (there is a button to enter in a key too. We did setup our KMS for Office 2016, however when we go to the VL site an download Office 2016 Pro Plus it appears to be a Click-to-run (offline) installer. We currently have our volume licenses 2013 Pro Plus installed activated via KMS. However the PCs in our conference rooms use generic accounts with no 365 licenses. Has a new 365 licenses for all employees that we are migrating to. Maybe I'm missing something, but I cannot get Office 2016 Pro Plus to activate via KMS at all.
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