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MS Office 2016 VL requires activation after restoring

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Hello,

The organization I work for uses MS KMS service to activate Windows 10 VL and Office 2016 VL,  I installed Windows 10 Enterprise x64 and Office 2016 Pro and both product were instantly activated. Afterwards, I created a backup  of entire hard drive using Acronis True Image 2016. My problem is that after restoring only Office 2016 requires activation.  I don't know if this is a known issue.  I would appreciate if you could help me on this matter.

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I believe this is design by Microsoft. The Volume license is associated with the OS UUID when registered with that machine. When deploying the image, the OS UUID will change and need to be activated again.

Try running the commands mentioned here to reactivate (ospp.vbs which is part of the office install)- it works in our environment, but does need to be applied after a deployment. 

https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2180410-ms-office-2016-activation

 

Hello,

Thank you for your suggestion. I will try running commands after deployment asap and post the result.

Regards

Sounds good. Best of luck and hope it does the trick for you too.