If multiple, we just log into the live account, then visit, input key, accept, repeat to for each key. Take each key, and activate them on the account. The method we use for 20 is as follows, which keeps all the activations on one live account: Thanks for all the feedback and support people! Experienced Embrace, extend and extinguish for myself I guess.

I feel like i've been violated by Microsoft, and not nicely. Not to mention I had issues with activating the keys themselves, it seemed like they sometimes wouldn't go through. So I had to create seperate accounts for each user. I've never had it work correctly with multiple keys on one account It lets you put 5 keys on one account then throws an activation error after the first one. I tried to tie 1 key to multiple accounts but ran into the thing /u/mobearsdog ran into - as in:Įspecially if you have 5 of them. Thank you for the replies, I will try the solutions people have suggested below and will respond how it went! But the problem is since the keys are not MAK I could not use this solution, and we don't have a KMS server.Īre there any solutions? I would not rather have to create an MS account for every user that is going to use office 2016. I have searched reddit and have found this thread and tried the solutions.

Googling has revealed that it is now mandatory to tie the licence key to a Microsoft account. Now the problem with office 2016 in particular is that it requires me to sign in to an MS account if I want to activate the product. The rest of us are using older office at the moment.

Some new computers arrived and with them keys for office 2016.

Change office 2016 product key