When done, I reactivated my real subscription edition with following command. First I had to remove the Grace Edition, then reactivate my "real" license.įirst, I removed the Grace Edition with following command using the five last characters of its product key shown in previous screenshot (yellow highlight in next screenshot): In my case this meant that whatever I did to activate Office, when the trial / grace period came to end, my Office lost its activation status. After deployment, when I had finally activated Office using my O365 credentials, the same Office installation was also shown as Subscription Edition, with license status Licensed (yellow highlight):Īpparently any trial or grace edition of Office "trumps" an activated edition.
This revealed the issue: Office installed but not activated when customizing deployment image was present and shown as Grace Edition, license status being Out-of-Box Grace (blue highlight in screenshot). Once again after refreshing Windows, I used the OSPP.vbs to check what licenses were present. On an OEM laptop with pre-installed Windows and a 30 day Office trial, the activated Office was deactivated after 30 days. I did countless re-installs and re-deployments, always the same: Office remained activated for just five days. The same: Office remained activated for five days, then deactivated. I tried uninstalling Office and this time re-installing it from my Office 365 Home subscription. Whatever I did Office was always deactivated after five days. In this real-life example case, I had an interesting issue when setting up Windows 10 from a deployment image with pre-installed but not activated Office installed from my Office 365 for Enterprise subscription. In some cases, this might lead to activation issues when user installs a Click-to-Run Office based on his / her subscription, be it Office 365 Personal, Home, Business or Enterprise.
Quite a many computers today with pre-installed Windows come with a trial version of Office.
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