tutabr.blogg.se - Switch from office 365 to office 2019

You could try contacting MS Support to see if they can help with that. That requires changing the email account associated with the license. The 2016, and I assume 2019, license terms still allow the original purchaser (or first activator) to sell and transfer the license to someone else. "because the CTR environment makes it so easy" (to paraphrase MS propaganda). Since MS came up with the "click to (not) run" environment, and changed the activation process in 2016 (REQUIRING email BEFORE product key) they now expect users to do the Having someone install and activate the Office license is the "old" way of doing it.

As computer scientists we are trained to communicate with the dumbest things in the world – computers – so you’d think we’d be able to communicate quite well with people. 365 Licenses can be assignedĪnd transferred to userids through the admin tool. Office 365 licenses can be managed through the Office administration application. Yes it is a PITA, but that is MS's oh-so subtle attempt to " encourage" businesses to " upgrade" to the Office 365 (cash-cow).

the Windows name of the computer it is installed on.

The important thing is you MUST keep track of: The can sign in to MS with their own accounts to access OneDrive / Teams. Office 2016/2019 doesn't have "online" features associated with the license that require the application to be signed in to MS to activate. But they don't provide an easy way to transfer the license to a new email account.Īctually, keeping all of the installations on your account is not all bad, assuming you are the IT guy in the shop. In 2016/2019, they force us to provide an email account before the product key. To match it to our paper records!, but not enough to use to activate again.

And they " improved" the way the product key was stored on the computer so that we can only use tools to extract the last 5 char of the key. In 2013, the " improved" the license terms to allow install on only one computer at a time. MS did a lot to (dis)" improve" Office 2016/2019 onetime payment license management.