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KMS Emulator in C (currently runs on Linux including Android, FreeBSD, Solaris, Minix, Mac OS, iOS, Windows with or without Cygwin)
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Active Office 365 App Offline #85

Closed vincentng190 closed 1 year ago

vincentng190 commented 1 year ago

Hello, how can I active Office 365 App offline? Or how to add key Office 365 to server data? Thanks.

rouben commented 1 year ago

You can't; Office365 doesn't use KMS. You can download and activate Office LTSC, however, but you will not get the same features.

thirdwheel commented 1 year ago

You can't; Office365 doesn't use KMS. You can download and activate Office LTSC, however, but you will not get the same features.

That's not entirely true. The Office365 C2R installer sometimes downloads the files required to change it from 365 to KMS (though the loss of certain features is likely if they rely on 365, and it may not be LTSC). There are guides online on how to do this and they can be found at your nearest Google.

rouben commented 1 year ago

TIL! Is this a supported operation? And is the reverse possible (converting LTSC to full CNR/O365)? Follow-up question: are features added/removed as appropriate to the specific build? For example, changing the Windows product key from Home to Enterprise download and enables Enterprise features. Does the same happen with Office when LTSC is converted to CNR/O365 and vice versa? I ask, because AFAIK, at least with Office 2016, KMS and non-KMS/retail versions were different builds/binaries.

thirdwheel commented 1 year ago

@rouben All very good questions. I haven't delved too deeply into this myself, I only know because we had a laptop come with the 365 stuff already installed and I stumbled on a method to convert it so it would use KMS, thus saving us the time consuming process of uninstalling 365 for the volume-licensing version.

vincentng190 commented 1 year ago

Hi @thirdwheel, please tell me how to convert Office 365 to active with KMS. Office 365 you mention is Bussiness, ProPlus, or Enterprise?