Are you using the activation pop-up that appears when you run one of the Office programs, or are you going into the settings and activating there? If you have only used the pop-up, try using Change Product Key in the settings to re-enter your key: Using Word - File->Account->Change Product Key Is this type of move even possible? Hopefully I can get this working so we dont have to buy new keys for those we move over.Ībsolute long shot here. What am I missing? We dont have microsoft accounts tied to these keys so I dont have a way to deactivate them and reactivate them. The preparing you office experience windows pops up but then quickly goes away and office remains unactuated. Ive tried putting in the key and I get no errors. Office, however, did not and wants the key to activate the installation. Everything is functional after a windows update to grab drivers. I tested this with a laptop and desktop and it looks like it works just fine. Each user will have a laptop only and a docking station it simplifies thinks a bit.Īnyway to save time, we were planning on taking the HDD out of the desktop machines and install them in the laptops to save a ton of down time moving everything over to the new machine. Some users here have both a laptop and a desktop machine but we are looking to move away from this.

From what it looks like, we have office 2016 keys that could be activated on 5 machines each. Alot of the older microsoft office key buying and organization was done before my colleagues and I joined on the IT team so we dont have a tone of information to go on.

Moving microsoft office to new computer