- Office 2016 Mac License Installer Software
- Office For Mac 2016 License Installer Can’t Be Opened Because It Is From An Unidentified Developer
- Microsoft Office 2016 Mac Download
For example, if you're licensed for Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 through Volume Licensing, you can use Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016 instead. But you may not downgrade to Microsoft Office Standard Edition 2016 because it is a different product and not considered a prior version of Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019. To uninstall Office for Mac 2011 move the applications to the Trash.Once you've removed everything, empty the Trash and restart your Mac to complete the process. Before you remove Office for Mac 2011, quit all Office applications and make sure there's nothing in Trash that you want to keep. If you don’t assign a user a license, you can still deploy Office 2016 for Mac to that user, but the user won’t be able to activate and use Office. The volume licensed versions of Office 2016 for Mac is the ISO download of the Office 2016 for Mac Standard package in the Volume License Service Center (VLSC). 'You need to activate Office for Mac within X days' after activating already. Microsoft is aware of and currently working on this issue. If you've activated Office for Mac 2016 but are still seeing a message that says 'You need to activate Office for Mac within X days,' please try these steps to resolve your issue: Run the License Removal Tool.
Description
Key Features
Office Home & Business 2016 for Mac is designed for users and small businesses that want Office with the power of Outlook for email, calendars and contacts. It’s the Office you know and trust, updated to take advantage of the latest Mac features, including Retina display and full screen view.
Outlook (Mail, schedules, calendars, to-do lists and contacts application)
Put together long e-mail threads under a single subject, freeing up your inbox space with Conversations. View your calendar right in the meeting invitation with Calendar view. With .PST import, migrate to Outlook for Mac from Windows, using the simple import tool. Consolidate all your e-mail, from work and home, into a single folder with unified inbox – streamline all your messages into one place.
Word (Word processing application)
Powerful writing tools and enhanced desktop publishing help you create outstanding documents, making it simple to store, edit and share your work easily on the web. Reorder Objects enables you to rearrange layers of text, photos and graphics throughout your documents.
Excel (Spreadsheet and charting application)
Analyse, organise and manage all your data and lists. Then save, edit and share online. Excel templates do most of the setup and design for you, so you can focus on your information. For greater insight, convert your info into a chart or table.
PowerPoint (Presentations application)
Build and share rich and professional presentations, with engaging new features like narration and presentation broadcast to then save, edit and co-author online. Use Reorder Objects to easily reorder layers of text, photos and graphics throughout your presentation.
OneNote (Digital note-taking application)
OneNote for Mac is available for free download. Keep all your notes, on all your devices, always up to date. Type, hand write or sketch your notes. Clip links and webpages, insert photos and videos, embed tables and attach files.
OneDrive
All OneDrive users receive free online storage with OneDrive. Upload your Office documents, photos, presentations and more and then access them from a Mac, PC, iPad, iPhone or other tablet or phone.
Office Online
Free Office Online sync with your OneDrive account, so when you’re away from your Mac or PC you can access, view, edit and share your Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote files from any Internet-connected device running a supported browser.
Soon Microsoft are to release an update to the Office 2016 Volume License installer on VLSC.
This update is 15.17 & is the first that has a few changes that may affect the way you deploy Office 2016.
These changes are going to be later enforced in 15.20 & onwards. Below are some details on the changes, some of the why & how via the power of the MacAdmins.org Slack & the awesome @pbowden that some of us have had a sneak peek.
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- 1 What’s Changing?
When you download the .iso from VLSC you’ll notice two packages within it:
The change is the new second pkg: “Microsoft_Office_2016_VL_Serializer.pkg”
What’s that about?
Well, for a while now it’s been fairly common practice to deploy the Office license to Macs outside of the Office installers or updates.
This came about as on occasion an Office Update or Installer would delete the file.
However, whilst the deletion itself was a bug, the ability to use the license.plist across Macs was also a bug.
What is it & should I use it?
With Office 2016, Microsoft are moving to a device based serialisation method. Which means that deploying the plist /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensingv2.plist will no longer work.
This device based serialisation is based around the generating a license on the Mac that is to be running Office 2016.
So if you employ monolithic imaging or deploy Office 2016 via a Composer snap shot etc, the serialisation will not work. (Please don’t deploy Office 2016 via a Composer snap shot, use the pkg).
Also, if you install Office 2016 whilst booted to another volume (as in when installing via a NetBoot or NetInstall volume or something like Target Mode Imaging), again the serialisation will not work.
Office 2016 Mac License Installer Software
To install Office 2016 from another volume & have the serialisation work, cache it locally on the Mac being imaged & install on first boot or if using Casper Imaging check “Install on boot drive after Imaging” for the PKG from within Casper Admin.
However, to enable Office 2016 to be correctly licensed in the multitude of deployment scenarios that we mac admins employ, @pbowden & his team have created the “Microsoft_Office_2016_VL_Serializer.pkg”
Running this will correctly serialise the Office 2016 suite, & should be run from the Mac that’s running the suite. So again, can be added post imaging & then the suite will be correctly serialised.
To be clear, this will only affect you if using the Volume Licensed version of Office 2016 & not the Office365 version.
What happens if I carry on copying the licensing.plist?
For now, not much.
Office For Mac 2016 License Installer Can’t Be Opened Because It Is From An Unidentified Developer
15.17 is the first release with the “Microsoft_Office_2016_VL_Serializer.pkg”, from 15.20 (scheduled for Q1 2016) you will have to use the correct license.
How did people find this out?
Well a little over a month ago a gentleman with the nick @pbowden hopped into the #microsoft-office channel on the MacAdmins.org Slack, this was awesome as @pbowden is a: Software engineer for Office for Mac/iOS at Microsoft, a fellow Brit & nice guy.
It’s been a great few weeks with the community sharing feedback with @pbowden & some of us being able to test pre-release installers for Office.
Microsoft Office 2016 Mac Download
I hope this warning has been as helpful to you, as it was when @pbowden shared it with us.