State exactly: What Office version is installed? If Retail ProPlus Click2Run: Did you "(C)onvert Retail to Volume" before KMS-activation? What Antivirus-software is used? Did you completely disable it or set needed scanning exclusions?
Office365 Pro Plus Did you "(C)onvert Retail to Volume" before KMS-activation? Yes What Antivirus-software is used? Windows Defender
I did a quick test using Windows 10 17133.1, installed from Insider (FAST) distribution-channel and successfully activated Office 365 ProPlus by using OfficeRTool. All went smoothly. And you said, you already did a clean Windows install, too. Puh, you seam to have all steps taken and KMS activation should work. I suggest, you use some of the other KMS-solutions (Microsoft Toolkit or KMS_VL_ALL). Just to crosscheck and to get a second opinion.
Can you walk me through the steps. Maybe I'm doing something wrong. After I install Office, I proceed to convert to VL. Then I proceed to do the KMS activation. Do I have to open office first after the conversion? Edit: I was able to activate with build 17133.1
Yes, non-Insider / RTM Windows 10 (17133.1) is working perfectly. Meanwhile I checked activation on Win10 Insider 17639.1000 and activation failed. So there are issues with Insider Win10 which even can't be solved by recreating tokens license files. KMS_VL_ALL and Office licence converter by abbodi1406 didn't work, too. Will need some time to think over and find out how to deal with this. Further info see below.
does the step (K) START KMS ACTIVATION questions: 1. requires internet to be activated ? 2. Frequency that needs to resumbit to kms? Every time the computer restarts? or everyday? 3. is it going to be automatic or do I have to manually run the officeRtools every month and choose the activation method? 4. To install both FR and EN languages in office, should I just install a language pack (not sure if that is doable wth office 2016) or I just download both installations and install both ? Out of subjet, but does kmspico portable requires a mnual reactivation or it is done automaticly? anyone has the link for this? THANK YOU ALL!
Very helpful as always! Once I activate with KMS in OfficeRtools, can activate it again using KMSpico to make it automaticly? Not sure if you can answer this, but is Microsoft toolkit 2.6.3 also automaticly or manual activation? Thanks for your great help!
The important part is "Retail to Volume Conversion". After conversion is done, you can use every KMS-solution you like. MTK can be used in both ways -> See Microsoft-Toolkit instructions by Razorsharp1.
Test-/problem-report recent Windows 10 Insider (17639) and Office 2016 (only valid if Windows Insider is used, does not affect RTM versions of Windows!): Situation: If Office 2016 is installed on Windows 10 Insider version, then KMS-activation for Office always fails. Know Workaround (delete and recreate license files "tokens.dat" and "cache.dat") doesn't work. Sometimes Windows 10 Insider activation gets corrupted, leaving Office deactivated if KMS was used for activation. Up to now the only possible way is activating Windows 10 Insider with valid key / digital license. This creates correct "tokens.dat" and "cache.dat" files. Then KMS-activation of Office succeeds. Just tested with newest Insider Office 365 ProPlus 16.0.9307.2004. This seems the only way to get Windows 10 Insider and Office 2016 up and running.
OneNote retail refuses to install if individual volume liscence programs are already installed... Word etc Solution?
It's an either-or-game. You can only use either Volume VLSC or Retail Click2Run. Both / mixed combinations are not possible.
What if you already have your own iso already downloaded? Can it use that? O365ProPlusRetail.img sha1: 66b1be83f99a68a144036f503bc1d12c8f629181 People might want to do that for their own checksum/hash check purposes Or can you check the hash of the file downloaded by OfficeRTool? Also: Will this tool work for 365 Pro Plus Retail? ( i.e Volume activate the 365 version)
Yes, you can use this setup-image. But as Microsoft is a little lazy, this Image is not uptodate and contains an older build. You have to use internal Office Update after install to get the most current version. Hash of Microsoft's Click2Run precreated IMG-install image is always different from the single files downloaded by O2016RTool. Some simple checks are done by OfficeRTool to detect and avoid problems during download from the official MS content delivery servers. Unfortunatedly there are no hashes listed by MS to rely on. Yes OfficeRTool will work on this. (C)onvert from Retail to Volume, then activate.
I was just wondering how people can check the hash of what RTool actually downloads, and then what to check it against, like some official hash. Might be a useful implementation. I dunno, just being paranoid
And the resulting hash will be checked against what? There are no official hashes of Office Click2Run published by Microsoft. Only Volume VLSC hashes are known.