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Have you deployed Office 2016? As far as I can tell, each install must have a MSFT login associated with it and you get ~20 installs per MSFT ID.
by bsilvereagle 10y ago
Have you deployed Office 2016? As far as I can tell, each install must have a MSFT login associated with it and you get ~20 installs per MSFT ID.
- discreditable 10y agoI've never heard of that. I've been testing Office 2016 in preparation to deploy it over the summer. I've had roughly 20 users on it and not one of them has been forced to use a Microsoft login. We don't use Office 365, could that have something to do with it?
- bsilvereagle 10y agoI have a copy of Office 2016 Home & Office and I needed a MSFT ID in order to activate it. It seems the product key is then tied to that MSFT ID. So, when I leave my company this copy of Office is going to stick with my ID and cannot be activated by a new employee unless I forfeit the license. I suppose you may have bulk licenses which may not require the MSFT ID. OEM installs require the ID it seems: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-office_install/install-office-2016-oem-without-live-account/139e1c25-86ae-49de-ab1a-3d8f03218fa9?page=1 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-... And so do retail licenses: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-office_install/repeat-install-office-2016-home-and-business/f8dc8e1b-8011-48b0-b019-c5546f0f6c74 http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2016-...
- discreditable 10y agoThat might be the trick. We purchase volume Windows + Office licenses via Microsoft's EES program.
- Piskvorrr 10y agoWhat would you need it for, in the age of LibreOffice? (For ticking a checkbox that explicitly says "MS Office", I get it.) MS Office is a fine collection of extremely powerful tools (I have yet to see any tool with the power and flexibility of MS Access), but an overkill for 90% of users.