Unfortunately, Microsoft made changes beginning with Office 2013, where only the last five digits of the product key get stored on your PC. Each one has specific methods for installation and reinstallation, as well as how the product key gets stored and used.
There are four types of Microsoft Office software: Retail, Subscription, Volume, and OEM.
It’s difficult to find, so you might be panicking while trying to remember the lost activation code. Dig around to find the full-length key (box, receipt, email, etc.)Īre you having trouble reinstalling your Microsoft Office? In all likelihood, you’ve forgotten your product activation key.You’ll see the last five characters of your Office product key.Type the following: cscript “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\OSPP.vbs” /dstatus and press “Enter.” Your location of OSPP.vbs may vary.While you might not think it to be much value the issue is that NOW, Microsoft requires all OEM/Retail Office 2016 installations to be registered into a Microsoft account - thus you can retrieve your keys that way - but there's no way to know which key is in use on which machine. It would be VERY COOL for this to be added as a new feature in Lansweeper. I am perfectly well aware that with Office 2016 installations Microsoft does NOT store the product key in the Registry.īUT - Microsoft DOES store PART of the key on the machine! Specifically the last 5 digits - there is a discussion about how to run cscript to retrieve them here: Now, BEFORE you start sending me to the newbie links, I HAVE read: However, it does not appear to be able to gather the product keys.
I have the latest version of Lansweeper running, it has no problems finding OEM/retail MS Office Home & Business 2016 installations.
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