

You can extend the trial period only 1 time ( Remaining App rearm count: 1). In this example, the retail trial edition of Office is installed on the computer ( Description: Office 19, RETAIL Grace channel). For example, for Office 2019, you need to find the line: Name: Office 19, Office19ProPlus2019xxx Find the section in the list that refers to MS Office. This command will display information about all Microsoft products on your computer.

You can check the current CMID of the computer using the ospp.vbs script – see the KMS activation FAQ).

The computer CMID is reset (the KMS server determines unique clients according to CMID.The activation timer is frozen until the first launch of any of the Office apps The trial period counter for Office resets to 30 days.In this example, you can see that you have installed a trial version of Microsoft Office 2016 and there are 4 days left before the trial period ends. REMAINING GRACE: 4 days (6499 minutes before expiring) You can check the current Office activation status and the number of days remaining until the end of the grace period as follows.Ĭd %SystemDrive%\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16Ĭscript ospp.vbs /dstatus LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 16, Retail(grace) channelĮRROR DESCRIPTION: The software Licensing Service reported that the application is running within the valid grace period. Thus, you can extend the total time of using the Office 2019/2016/365 trial version up to 120 days (4 * 30 days). You can run this command up to three (3) times before the trial expires. Thus, you rearm your Office copy and extend the free trial to 30 days. You can reset the free trial period in retail editions (Home, Personal, University, etc.) only once. Hopefully one of these will help you.Please note that this license rearm method is only suitable for corporate versions of Office and Office 365 ( Office 2016 vs Office 365: What’s the difference) licensed under the Volume Licensing (Standard, ProPlus, and Enterprise editions). I believe Using Windows 10 UNIVSTALL (before) running the Office 2016 ISO file either removes an important registry entry, or inserts one that causes the new install to fail. Went back to VLSC site 6 more times and downloaded a fresh Office 2016 (32-bit version) in case any files were corrupt, but I still got the same install messages.īelow are links to Microsoft that have worked for some, but not all, users.Ran Control Panel - in startup found Windows Installer was on and set for Manual.Ran the MS Program Install and Uninstall Troubleshooter.Ran RUN %ProgramData% and renamed Office.help to.RAN SFC on drive C: and found no errors.Click to expand.We researched blogs and found this problem to be very common whenever an older Office version was uninstalled prior to installing Office 2016, and we followed all the following suggestions ( with full reboots each time).
