Office 2016 For Mac Serializer

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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.

Note that Office2019 DO NOT support activate via simple copy/paste plist license file which is the simplest way to activate Office 2016. Fortunately, you can also use the VL Serializer tool, just install Office 2019 and Serializer, then run Serializer to activate. If you already use Office on a PC or iPad, you will find yourself right at home in Office 2016 for Mac. It works the way you expect, with the familiar ribbon interface and powerful task panes. Mac users will appreciate the modernized Office experience and the integration of Mac capabilities like Full Screen view and Multi-TouchTM gestures.

Once the download is complete, double-click to open the Office2016Mac.iso file and run the installer package - MicrosoftOffice2016VLSerializer.pkg. Launch any Office app, like Word. In the top menu, select Word About Word. The Volume Serializer (VL) is used to activate Office 2019 for Mac as a volume licensed version. It's an approximately 4 mb package file that you run on a user's computer, either before or after you've installed Office. Download the Volume License (VL) Serializer from the VLSC. To download the VL Serializer, do the following steps. TheVLSerializerisa smallcommand-linebasedtoolwhichactivatesthecurrentlyinstalledversionofOffice2016forMaconthelocalcomputer. Background TheVolumeLicenseeditionofOffice2016forMacallowseligiblecustomerstodeployapre-activatedcopyofOfficeapplicationsonagivenusers' computer.

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.

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However, whilst the deletion itself was a bug, the ability to use the license.plist across Macs was also a bug. Guitar rig for mac free download.

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. Mac theme for windows 7 32 bit free download.

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.

War3 for mac download. 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.

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.

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I hope this warning has been as helpful to you, as it was when @pbowden shared it with us.

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