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When you start an Microsoft 365 app that's not activated, you'll be prompted to sign in to Microsoft 365. Be sure to sign in using the Microsoft account, or work or school account, that you used to buy or subscribe to Microsoft 365.

To use Microsoft 365 on your new device, you can activate Microsoft 365 as a 1-month trial of Microsoft 365 Family. You can also buy Microsoft 365, add Microsoft 365 to an existing Microsoft 365 subscription, or enter a product key from a new product key card. If you have an older copy of Microsoft 365, you can install that instead.

A digital product key is transmitted to your PC, so you won't need or receive a printed product key. You activate Microsoft 365 by signing in with a Microsoft account. If we detect your Microsoft account, we'll show it on this screen. After you sign in, your product is added to your Microsoft account, so that you can reinstall it later, or manage your new subscription, without a product key.

If you bought Office Professional Plus, Visio Professional, or Project Professional through your employer's Microsoft Workplace Discount Program (formerly known as Microsoft Home Use Program) benefit, select I don't want to sign in or create an account (at the bottom of the screen) and enter your product key.

If you bought a new Microsoft 365 product key card, or you received a product key when you bought Microsoft 365through an online store, go to Office.com/setup or Microsoft365.com/setup and follow the on-screen prompts. This is a one-time process that adds your new product to your Microsoft account. After you redeem your key, you can install Office.

If Microsoft 365 can't activate, it eventually becomes unlicensed and all editing features of Microsoft 365 are disabled. Microsoft can become unlicensed for a number of reasons. For example, if your Microsoft 365 subscription expires, you must renew your subscription to restore all features of Microsoft 365.

This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to activate Office for Mac. If you're running into errors or issues with installing or activating Office on your Mac, see What to try if you can't install or activate Office for Mac instead.

For Microsoft 365 for Mac, you can have up to 25 licenses associated with the same Microsoft account: only one license for a Microsoft 365 subscription and multiple one-time-use installs of Microsoft 365 for Mac Home and Student or Home and Business.

If you try to activate a one-time install of Microsoft 365 for Mac and you get the error: Key already used, you will need to select another license to use. Click Cancel and you'll return to the license selection screen.

Step 2: Sign in with your Microsoft account, or create one if you don't have one (you can create one with any existing email address you already have). Be sure to remember this account so that you can install or reinstall Office later, without a product key.

I recently purchased a new Spectre x360 laptop and included a 1 year personal subscription in my order. After recieving my laptop and getting things setup, I decided to try activing my Office 365 subscription. I could find no information on how to activate my new subscription on my existing Microsoft account. After several failed tries, I initiated a tech chat session. The tech was very friendly and helped my get it activated. But they had to first check on my purchase order and then had to remote into my PC and log into my Microsoft account (with my help) and essentially purchase a 1 year subscription on my behalf. It looks fine and seems to have worked, but I'm quite miffed by the process used to activate my Office 365 subscription. This cannot be the normal process. I would have expected to recieve some kind of activation code or special web link to activate my subscription. At the very least, there should have been instruction provided to me on how to activate my subscription. I should not have to contact tech support and have them remote into my PC to activate it.

I agree. It sounds like your order was not processed properly with the purchase of Office subscription. You should have been emailed the activation code or it included on a card inside the laptop box.

If a PC comes with a 1 year subscription of a software product from HP, the activation key is embedded in the motherboard and activates automatically after installation. This is why you will notice Windows 10 will never require you to enter an activation key unless you changed the motherboard yourself.

I'm not talking about the 1 month trial version of Office 365. I actually purchased a 1 year subscription for Office 365 at the same time that I ordered the PC. Yes, I'm aware that the Windows 10 activation is embedded and activation occurs automatically. The process for activating my purchased 1 year subscription for Office 365 was never explained to me. The activation needs to be associated with my Microsoft account. This process should NOT require tech support and remote control of my PC.

Thanks for the tip. I went back and checked my junk and spam for possible emails. However, none was found. I think someone at HP just messed up and did not provide me with any method to activate the subscription. The tech on the chat was able to activate it, but it was clear that it was not a normal process although at the end of the dialog they claimed it was the normal process. I have a copy of the chat session, if anyone wants to see it.

I am having the same issue. I am setting up my new laptop HP -17Z with a pre-purchased 1-year office 365 subscription that I received yesterday. I attempted to do it myself (software engineer retired) and only got the option for 30-day trial or purchase a new 1-year subscription. Called the chat line and someone remoted into my new PC and gave me the 30-day trial. What!!!!! I even gave them my order number so they could confirm my purchase of the 1-year subscription. Now I am waiting for them to call back to get my 1-year subscription installed. I agree.... it is crazy that they have made this so difficult. Maybe they should just furnish the product key in the shipment so we can do this ourselves.

Shared computer activation is required for scenarios where multiple users share the same computer and the users are logging in with their own account. Normally, users can install and activate Microsoft 365 Apps only on a limited number of devices, such as 5 PCs. Using Microsoft 365 Apps with shared computer activation enabled doesn't count against that limit. If your users have their own computers and no one else uses those computers, use product key activation for Microsoft 365 Apps.

To activate Microsoft 365 Apps, TLS 1.2 must be enabled by default on the operating system. Some older operating systems, such as Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2012, need an update applied to enable TLS 1.2 by default. For more information, see Update to enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 as default secure protocols in WinHTTP in Windows. But, running Microsoft 365 Apps on these older operating systems isn't supported. For more information, see End of support resources for Office.

To use shared computer activation, you need an Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) plan that includes Microsoft 365 Apps and also supports shared computer activation. Shared computer activation is available for the following plans:

When you're using the Office Customization Tool at config.office.com or the wizard built into Microsoft Configuration Manager, make sure that you enable the option Shared Computer in the Product activation section.

If Microsoft 365 Apps is already installed and you want to enable shared computer activation, there are three options to choose from. A reinstallation isn't required. The device must be rebooted in order to apply the change.

Use Group Policy by downloading the most current Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) for Office and enable the "Use shared computer activation" policy. This policy is found under Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office 2016 (Machine)\Licensing Settings.

The Support and Recovery Assistant fully automates all of the steps to verify requirements for shared computer activation and to enable shared computer activation. It's available in two versions: enterprise and UI. Use the version that's best suited for your situation.

The Enterprise version of the Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant is a command-line version. This version supports scripting for managing multiple devices, including those devices not immediately accessible. Download the Enterprise version.

To determine whether the user is licensed to use Microsoft 365 Apps, the Office Licensing Service has to know the user's account for Office 365. In some cases, Microsoft 365 Apps prompts the user to provide the information. For example, the user might see the Activate Office dialog box.

If your environment synchronizes Office 365 (Microsoft Entra ID) and local Active Directory (AD) accounts, users are unlikely to encounter any prompts. Microsoft 365 Apps can automatically retrieve the necessary information about the user's account in Office 365.

These steps are repeated for each user who signs in the shared computer. Each user gets a unique licensing token. Just because one user activates Microsoft 365 Apps on the computer doesn't mean Microsoft 365 Apps is activated for all other users who sign in the computer.

Licensing token renewal The licensing token that is stored on the shared computer is valid only for 30 days. As the expiration date for the licensing token nears, Microsoft 365 Apps automatically attempts to renew the licensing token when the user is logged on to the computer and using Microsoft 365 Apps.