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Microsoft Office 2016 Professional Plus - Auto Activation

Has anyone had any luck getting MS Office 2016 to automatically activate after a managed deployment?  Using the AUTO_ACTIVATE statement in the .msp worked great for deploying 2010 and 2013, but it appears to be not working when deploying 2016.  I've also tried different variations of command lines using the "Add installations and run programs" portion of the OCT.


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Posted by: SMal.tmcc 8 years ago
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Found this guys post and followed it and now the KMS activates when finished.  Make sure you update your admin files prior to building the msp file

https://4sysops.com/archives/office-2016-installation-customize-and-deploy/

scroll down to customize the install and follow his directions.

Posted by: rileyz 8 years ago
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What key are you using? I assume KMS, do you have a KMS server?
Posted by: apptopack 8 years ago
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Office 2016 click to run needs to be packaged using ODT. You need to edit the config.xml which comes along with the ODT.

<Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="1" />

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj219426.aspx#BKMK_Reference

Also for volume license through OCT if you want to activate, the AUTO_ACTIVATE doesn't seem to work. Instead try this.

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C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16\OSPP.VBS" /ACT
(or)
C:\Windows\System32\cscript.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\OSPP.VBS" /ACT




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  • We are installing via volume license. I tried a variation of above and didn't have success, but I will try again with the command lines you provided. - piobaireachd 8 years ago

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