Finding Out Your Microsoft Office Licence Version
Jan16

Finding Out Your Microsoft Office Licence Version

KB ID 0001385 Problem While doing some upgrades on a clients RDS farm this week, I needed to find out what version  of Microsoft Office they were running. I’m not talking about Office 2013, Office 2016, etc, that’s easy to find out, (run appwiz.cpl and look in Add/Remove Programs). I’m taking about are you running a retail copy, or a volume licensed copy, or an Office 365 Office subscriptions copy. Solution For some...

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Change/Add Office 2013 Product Key
Nov17

Change/Add Office 2013 Product Key

KB ID 0000821 Problem Both ‘box product’ or retail versions of Office require you to add the key and activate them at install time. But volume licensed or MAK versions do not. This makes it easy for you to forget. If you use KMS that’s not a problem, by default they will licence themselves from there. However if you need to put in a MAK key this has to be done manually or office will start complaining. Solution 1. Launch...

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