Microsoft Office re-activate on win 10 upgrade.

[computertechguy]

Since going from Win 7 to Win 10 usually breaks the microsoft office activation how do you guys handle it for at least 100 pc's in various offices? Can you find the license before the upgrade and re-enter it? I just had to waste an hour of my time finding one clients old microsoft license to activate his office 2016. Some PC's were before me and would never ever be able to find the office license keys.

 

[Porthos]

Since going from Win 7 to Win 10 usually breaks the microsoft office activation how do you guys handle it

Are these inplace upgrades or clean installs? I have not had any issues with office so far.

 

[mraikes]

I've also never had an in-place upgrade affect Office licensing. With very few exceptions, all the upgrades I've done have gone very smoothly.

 

[nlinecomputers]

100+ is why this needs to be on Office 365. You fix it if it breaks by logging in.

 

[computertechguy]

I've also never had an in-place upgrade affect Office licensing. With very few exceptions, all the upgrades I've done have gone very smoothly.

It seems to be office 2016 (Office 2010 hasn't had a problem) any in place upgrade from 7 to 10 with office 2016 breaks the office activation. Microsoft's response is uninstall and reinstall with the product key, not efficient and not going to happen.

 

[computertechguy]

So no one has done a win 10 in place upgrade with office 2016? Hmm so far just did 5 in a row and the office all needed to be reactivated, via re-entering the key.

 

[Porthos]

So no one has done a win 10 in-place upgrade with office 2016? Hmm so far just did 5 in a row and the office all needed to be reactivated, via re-entering the key.

Sorry, i do not have many clients on Office to begin with. All my clients are already on 10 and I have not had very many needing upgrades from 7 to 10.

 

[Markverhyden]

It seems to be office 2016 (Office 2010 hasn't had a problem) any in place upgrade from 7 to 10 with office 2016 breaks the office activation. Microsoft's response is uninstall and reinstall with the product key, not efficient and not going to happen.

Are you sure that these aren't grey market licenses?

 

[computertechguy]

https://social.technet.microsoft.co...indows-10-upgrade?forum=Office2016setupdeploy

 

[computertechguy]

Sorry, i do not have many clients on Office to begin with. All my clients are already on 10 and I have not had very many needing upgrades from 7 to 10.

We can't always jump to the latest software because most clients are on a practice management software, Dental offices, CPA's, veterinary, etc. The practice management is usually slow to support latest and greatest (although Win 10 is no longer latest and greatest).

 

[nlinecomputers]

(although Win 10 is no longer latest and greatest).

Huh? Since when? It has upgrades every 6 months. It's Windows as a service it always will be the lastest version.

 

[computertechguy]

Huh? Since when? It has upgrades every 6 months. It's Windows as a service it always will be the lastest version.

What I mean is it has been seasoned for a few years already, it isn't fresh off the shelves.

 

[Sky-Knight]

I've upgraded a TON of Windows 7 machines with Office 2013 and 2016 on them to Windows 10, I did nothing on Office... nothing.

Now, SOME of the machines blow up, and they need a new key inserted. And there's a happy little GUI there where I just copy / pasted the appropriate key out of office.com/myaccount and off it went. But I've had this happen with office just sitting there all on its lonesome, the upgrade doesn't matter, it just crapped itself.

 

[Romaniac]

'go to 365' is not a solution. I am not a fan of subscription BS, especially for general/residential use.

 

[fencepost]

As far as subscription BS, are they already using any paid cloud storage plans like Dropbox? If so, an O365 Personal or Home subscription will actually get them better pricing for the storage, and it even comes with a free office suite.

 

[Sky-Knight]

@Romaniac, you should because O365 for home users is $100 / year for 6 humans to use office to their heart's content. This includes mobile devices thanks to the integrated cloud storage. Office Home and Student is $149.99 / machine it lives on. Not only is this solution backwards, limiting software support to a platform that basically doesn't exist in homes anymore, but it's more expensive. Mainstream support for Office 2016 and 2019 end on the same day, 10/14/2025, that's the day cloud support terminates for Office. Basically, 74 months from now. So if you buy Office 2019 now as a home user, you're paying a bit more than $2 / month. O365 home for 6 people breaks down to $1.39 / month.

So if you want to use Office, 365 is the only path forward thanks Microsoft.

If you don't like that, LibreOffice. Oh, and don't forget that military service members can buy O365 Home via the Commissary for $30 / year. But yeah, if the whole family isn't using it, the price is a problem.

 

[Romaniac]

Yes, the price is a problem.

Also, in this case, they already paid for the copies and the potential for that software to serve them just fine for years to come is very likely.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Since going from Win 7 to Win 10 usually breaks the microsoft office activation how do you guys handle it for at least 100 pc's in various offices? Can you find the license before the upgrade and re-enter it? I just had to waste an hour of my time finding one clients old microsoft license to activate his office 2016. Some PC's were before me and would never ever be able to find the office license keys.

Learned early on that centralizing license keys is very important. And it does affect "cost of services" to a client. Unless you volunteer your time spent to hunt down various licenses (as you can see..this adds a lot of time to your tasks)....you should educate clients that "sometimes the cheap way....isn't so cheap at the end of the day. Pay me now, or pay me later!"

I remember years ago the one larger client that I had which I was glad we parted ways..they insisted on pinching every nickle so hard the buffalo cried out loud! He had purchased a bunch of computers on his own with Office OEM licenses...maybe 2013. It was the ones that you had to hack together a bunch of email aliases to keep activation. This was an MSP client.."gold"..and we ate a TON of time on that when it came time to rebuild some PCs, or just dealing with that method of activation in the first place. I will not make that mistake again. For businesses....Volume License, or O365...period!

 

[nerd2u]

This is why I love O365.

No need to worry about joe in finance purchased his own copy of office and can't find the license key or doesn't remember which Microsoft account he tied it to.

On Monday I had a customer contact me and say they wanted to deploy the office suite to a handful of PC's. They simply identified the accounts I changed their licensing and let them know they could login to the portal and install office.

Was Quick and painless.

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