Note: If you are using Office 365 for Small Businesses follow these instructions to open the Exchange Online Control Panel. Double click the user whose email address you want to change and click the Email Addresses link in the left-hand menu. Windows video converter. Click the Plus button to add a new email address Click the Plus button to add a new address. Office 365 allows (.) any user to install all Office applications (currently Office 2016) for which he/she has been granted a license on up to 5 devices; if the user installs the applications from the Office 365 portal, the installed software is automatically linked to his/her user account; if instead the Office Deployment Tool is used, the software is not automatically activated, and the user. A friend just installed Office 365 yesterday on his computer to be able to work from home. The license belongs to his employer's Office tenant. When signing in to Office portal with his workplace Office credentials and installing, it installed the whole Office business suite.
When re provisioning laptops and desktops that utilize Office 365 installations the subscription login doesn't update properly. Although this can be fixed as sugested by many by logging into the old users OWA account, Install Status, and deactivate this doesn't help any when the user account no longer exists.Office 365 Change Belongs To
The user can wait the 31 days until it begins to complain that it's unlicensed, but that's not good product administration in my opinion. I don't want my users to have to worry about it, period.Logging out on the account page and logging back in also does not update the 'belongs to' field.
Options:
- Reinstall Office - wow, what a waste of time for something that should be easy
- Do an online repair - Again, this works, but it takes awhile depending on your connection.
- Run a quick script - YAY (but again, what the heck is MS thinking, this should be easy!)
Switch Office 365 License Account
365 Office Sign In
- cscript.exe '%ProgramFiles(x86)%Microsoft OfficeOffice16ospp.vbs' /dstatus
- then run
- cscript.exe '%ProgramFiles(x86)%Microsoft OfficeOffice16ospp.vbs' /unpkey:XXXXX
I have to do this fairly often so I slapped together a weak powershell file with this. Since I'm not overly skilled with PS I have to retype the last 5 of the key back in, but at least I don't have to remember the commands. Maybe someone can take the output of the first one and pull out the last 5 for the second command automagically.
Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {cscript.exe 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16ospp.vbs' /dstatus}$prodkey = Read-Host 'Enter the last 5 characters of the product key'Invoke-Command -ScriptBlock {cscript.exe 'C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16ospp.vbs' /unpkey:$prodkey} -ArgumentList $prodkey
