Q: Product activation for office 2013 failing. Have purchased a boxed product for office home and business 2013 which comes with a pkc for 1 PC - 5 licences. The product was initially activated but after carrying out a repair the product will no longer activate even though the key is accepted.
December 11, 2013 by I have had several occurrences now of Office 2013 failing to activate. This is on brand new PCs with a trial of 2013 installed, or partially installed and after i have registered the key with a Live ID. I read on a forum that one possible solution to the failure to activate was to go into an Office application, go to File, then Account and use the change license button to enter a new key. The problem was, it didn’t have that option listed.
The solution I came up with was to use OSPP.vbs to install a license key. Is a script located in “C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Office Office15” and is used for Office Licensing Activation. It is useful because you can use it to do a number of things like query your license status, and also to install license keys. The syntax is really easy. CScript OSPP.vbs /InpKey:ABCD-EFGH-IJKLM-NOPQ-RSTU This should result in a success message.
Then you can use OSPP.vbs to activate. CScript OSPP.vbs /act This should successfully activate your software. Because we were working on 44 new PCs at this site, (and they had purchased OEM not a VL) i dropped this into a small PowerShell script to save my fingers typing it all out. Write-Host “Enter your Office 2013 License key, then press enter” $Key = Read-Host Set-Location “C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Office Office15” CScript OSPP.vbs /InpKey:$Key CScript OSPP.vbs /act You can save this in notepad as ‘Office.ps1’ and run it in an elevated PowerShell window, it will prompt for your license key, which you should enter including the dashes. Press enter and the key should be installed and activated for you. First off: thanks, excellent tip here.
As for the quotes: If I copy & paste the code you posted in notepad: Set-Location “C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Office Office15″ You may notice the quotes are not your normal quotes. Set-Location “C: Program Files (x86) Microsoft Office Office15” This last line is fixed with the correct quotes in notepad and pasted back here.
@JB: have you tried replacing the funny quotes with regular quotes after you’ve copied the code? @Robert: have you chosen the “code” markup for the piece of code when posting this? Cheers Arjan.
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