First of all thanks for the great effort. Two things i've noticed: #1. I am on Windows 10 Insider channel (fast ring). Every time a new windows version gets released, office 365 (2016 Mondo) breaks and i have to repair it (the quick repair does not work either, so full repair is needed.) #2. Once i repair it, office needs to be reactivated (i guess it has to do with the licensing trick for Windows 10 insiders). Last time i upgraded windows to latest version, office kms activation worked perfectly. This time (build 19582) it doesn't. It get's stuck on (Activation failed message appears after 5 minutes or so): " Activating Office 16, Office16MondoVL_KMS_Client edition Activation failed ____________________________________________________________________________ No Instance(s) Available. No Instance(s) Available. Activation failed ____________________________________________________________________________ No Instance(s) Available. No Instance(s) Available. Activation failed The CMD that opened for the activation shows (changed ip to xxx): 2020-03-15 1113: Listening on [::]:16880 2020-03-15 1113: Listening on 0.0.0.0:16880 2020-03-15 1113: vlmcsd 1111, built 2017-06-17 01:00:56 UTC started successfully 2020-03-15 1119: IPv4 connection accepted: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:53945. 2020-03-15 1149: IPv4 connection closed: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:53945. Any clues/ideas on what could be broken?
i am quite shure what is broken -> the user in front of the PC 1. you use a Windows 10 Insider channel version (THIS IS A TEST VERSION) 2. you use Mondo withtout to know what MONDO is sorry, but why you wonder / ask 'Any clues/ideas on what could be broken?'
if you read more carefully what i said, you wouldn't have wasted my time to reply to you (nor yours) 1. captain obvious 2. the conversion from retail to volume converts office to Mondo version, at least that's what happened in my case in previous upgrade of windows insider version, the kms office activation worked fine. 179 days to be exact. now the activation doesn't work at all. so instead of trying to get 5 seconds of fame, say something useful or do something more productive (e.g. watch an ice cube melting)
To fix the license issue of office, use Office Scrubber Run files Remove_Licenses.cmd and Uninstall_Keys.cmd and afterwords open any office app to let it repair itself or run Reset_Licenses.cmd These files have the fix for windows insider issue with the office activation. Later run KMS_VL_ALL to activate the office. It should fix it. Windows insider issue with office activation is well known and fix is available. Mondo is a proper product that works fine without issues.
Just a heads up (this is not the fault of the tool, but is something to be aware of) that for whatever reason, over the last week, MS has been playing games with versions. For example, last Monday the Insider build was 16.0.12703.20010. On Wednesday, it was back to 16.0.12527.20278. On Friday, 16.0.12711.20000 came out, but later that day it was showing 16.0.12527.20278 again. By today, we were on 16.0.12711.20000 again, but, you guessed it, a little later, back to an old favorite:16.0.12527.20278, which is where it is as I type this. That build, btw, is the build showing for all of them except Monthly Channel Targeted (ignoring Dogfood), which is not normal in and of itself.
@apn3a : l will check KMS activation on newest Win10 Insider. Thank you for reporting. @bjf2000 : Will think about how to deal with this version in's and out's.
Great little program! However, could you please add an option to change the install path/location/directory? I do not want to install all my programs in C:/Program Files, or wherever the default is. Thanks.
D: okay. I chose Office 365 ProPlus but the tool installed OneNote 2016 for me. What would I need to do if I want the newer version?
Thanks for this! FYI it gave me again an "Activation Failed" error, but Office was activated successfully. So all good.
It seems, there still is a problem. "Activation failed" is shown when the activation process doesn't complete successfully. Could be, Office is still activated from a prior KMS activation. What is shown as remaining days in (A) SHOW CURRENT ACTIVATION STATUS ? If you check right after KMS activation it must show 180 days. Some minutes later it's 179. If it's not 179/180 days then activation failed for some reason. In most, but not all cases, KMS activation is blocked by Antivirus-/Firewall-program. Did you use something else than MS-Defender? If Yes, did you set exclusion rules in this other AV?
The only products that were not activated were project 2019 and visio 2019 (still show as grace period). For office, it looks like it was activated successfully. I'm behind SEP which i deactivated and added also the exclusion rules. FYII just ran again the activation and all products activated successfully; so maybe there was a glitch yesterday. Thanks again! Office installation path: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Distribution-Channel: Insider (Office Insider FAST) Updates-Url: hxxp://officecdn.microsoft.com/pr/5440fd1f-7ecb-4221-8110-145efaa6372f ____________________________________________________________________________ Office 365 ProfessionalPlus --- ProductVersion: 16.0.12711.20000 License Family: Office16MondoVL_KMS_Client Activation status: 1 (---LICENSED---) PartialProductKey: -XQBR2 Remaining KMS activation period: 178 days left - License expires at: 9/18/2020