![]() There’s no OEM option with Office for Mac. That displays the type of Office and who it’s licenced to. Go to the app menu (top left) then the About … menu item. Office for Macįinding these details is a lot easier on Office for Mac. ![]() There can be other useful details in that listing like the Offline Grace Period for Microsoft 365 subscriptions. See Fixing extra licence problems in Microsoft Office Offline Grace Period Handy if you have multiple product keys in your collection. GVLKs support both Key Management Service (KMS) and Active Directory-based activation. That helps match up your product key with the installed computer. All volume licensed versions of Office, including Project and Visio, have a Generic Volume License Key (GVLK) preinstalled. Last five characters of installed product key: Subscription – for Microsoft 365 annual payment plans. Look at two lines for the important details.įor perpetual license Office 2019 or Office 2021 look for the words: Restart or renew Microsoft 365 licence before going offline No License detailsĮven though Microsoft 365 is happily running as fully licensed. Microsoft 365 licence has a ‘grace’ or offline period As long as Microsoft’s licencing servers are happy, you’re good to go.īut it’s a nuisance if you want to work offline for an extended time and would like to check the ‘grace period’ days remaining. If Microsoft Office 365 is working on your computer, you can ignore this message. The term ‘ Grace‘ and status ‘ Notifications‘ are related to the false ‘grace period expired’ message.Ĭomputers showing this error are regularly connected to the Internet (two are desktop machines) so there’s no reason why the licence status isn’t updated. The error message isn’t correct: “ The Software Licensing Service reported that the grace period expired.” because Office is working on that computer. This example is from another computer using the same shared Home/Family license as the first example above. “grace period expired” misleading message for a fully working version of Office 365 Other fully working Microsoft 365 installs show quite misleading results. See Microsoft 365 licence has a ‘grace’ or offline period Alternative License details Remaining Grace: how long the software will work without needed a check of license status. License Status: should show ‘LICENSED’ but might say ‘NOTIFICATIONS’, see below.Įrror Description: “ The Software Licensing Service reported that the application is running within the timebased validity period.” is a long-winded way of saying Office is fully licensed. The ‘1601’ date is a placeholder, your computer hasn’t moved back in time to the Elizabethan era! This appears for regular public releases of Office (non-beta/Insiders) but does NOT mean you’ve switched to Insiders. License Description: might say ‘TIMEBASED_SUB channel’ or ‘RETAIL (Grace) channel’.īeta Expiration: Ignore. Yes, it still says ‘Office 16’ and ‘HomePrem’ even though the name changed from ‘Home Premium’ to ‘Family’. Licence Name: look for the characters ‘365’. If your Office 365 software is fully working with access to 1TB OneDrive etc. We’ll show some of the variations we’ve seen for fully working Office 365 for Windows.ĭON’T WORRY if your screen shows something different from what’s below. ![]() Your mileage will varyīetween our own tests and reports from Office Watchers (our readers) it’s clear that the results from ” cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus ” can vary a lot and not always for any obvious reason. Scroll down for the steps to find your Office license details. Some of the other details aren’t important or downright strange. The same trick works with Microsoft 365 for Windows and shows some details not visible elsewhere, in particular the offline grace period. That’s a vital detail for perpetual licence (non subscription) Office.Īfter that article, some Office Watchers asked about the details on Microsoft 365 for Windows. We recently showed it’s important for for perpetual non-subscription versions of Office like Office 2021 or Office 2019 to know if the purchase is Retail/Volume or OEM. ![]() To download an update, select the corresponding Knowledge Base article in the following list, and then go to the "How to download and install the update" section of the article.Here’s how to find out what type of Microsoft Office 365 licence you have with details hidden from the usual About dialog box. We recommend that you install all updates that apply to you. These updates are intended to help our customers keep their computers up-to-date. Microsoft released the following security and nonsecurity updates for Office in June 2023. ![]()
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