

This results in the following output at the command prompt window: The activation can then be checked with the following command: Then reinstall the actual key (MS Office 2016 PP) with the following command:Īfterwards, the actual key (MS Office 2016 PP) must be reactivated with the following command: Uninstalling product key for: Office 16, Office16O365HomePremR_Grace edition

Uninstall the Office16O365HomePrem key with the following command an attempt is made to activate an Office16O365HomePrem in addition to the Office16ProPlus. Last 5 characters of installed product key: KHGM9ĮRROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 16, RETAIL(Grace) channel LICENSE NAME: Office 16, Office16O365HomePremR_Grace edition Last 5 characters of installed product key: LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 16, RETAIL(MAK) channel LICENSE NAME: Office 16, Office16ProPlusVL_MAK edition Installed product key detected – attempting to activate the following When you try to activate Office 2016 by using the following command: Install the Office key with the following command:Ĭ:\WINDOWS\system32>cscript "C:\Programme\MicrosoftĢ. The German folder 'Programme' is 'programs' in an English Windows for instance.ĬW writes that you must perform the following steps in an administrative command prompt (cmd, started as administrator).ġ. Note: Below I used the paths for a German Windows – so you need to adjust the command paths given below for your Windows. But he hat the plan, to install and activate an Office16ProPlusVL_MAK-Edition 64 Bit on his surface using the 64 Bit version of Office 2016 PP via an ISO image Here the solution for the following problem: Office 365 can't be uninstalled completelyīlog reader Cw had the following situation: A Microsoft Surfac, on which an Office16O365HomePremR_Grace Edition was preinstalled as test/trial version. Since I could take appropriate suggestions from your blog, Uninstall Office 365 and install Office 2016Īfter reading my old (German) blog post about how to uninstall Office 365, German blog reader CW contacted us some time ago and sent me a mail describing his solution for uninstalling Office 365 and then installing Office 2016 – thanks for that. Within the blog post I outlined other approaches to remove an Office 365 install.

Within this article I reported a case, where an affected user was forced to reinstall an OEM system without Office 365 trials to solve this issue. I had already addressed this issue in April 2018 in the blog post Office 365 can't be uninstalled completely. It appears that you are having trouble uninstalling this preinstalled version of Office 365. On some Windows systems, a trial version of Microsoft Office 365 is pre-installed. The problem: Office 365 cannot be completely uninstalled
