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I'm not an expert on ACTIVATION as LICENSING is a pain. Luckily, I'm in a corporate situation where budgets are secondary to getting it working. KMS & MAK are not covered here. Here's how:

• -click START > RUN
• -type: cmd
• -type: cd C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15

From here, there are 3 basic commands to help and resolve: STATUS, CHANGE, ACTIVATE.

GET STATUS

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus

CHANGE KEY

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

ACTIVATE KEY

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /act

The result will look something like this:

RESULT

Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

---Processing--------------------------
---------------------------------------
SKU ID: XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX
LICENSE NAME: Office 15, OfficeStandardVL_MAK edition
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 15, RETAIL(MAK) channel
LICENSE STATUS:  ---LICENSED---
Last 5 characters of installed product key: XXXXX
---------------------------------------
---------------------------------------
---Exiting-----------------------------

Sometimes, there is a double install where 2 different versions are installed at the same time. A KMS version and a MAK version. You can find out by

SEE ALL KEYS THAT ARE TRYING TO ACTIVATE

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus

UNINSTALL KEY THAT ISN'T CORRECT

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:last-5-digits

THEN IMMEDIATELY INSTALL AN MAK KEY

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

THEN ACTIVATE

• C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15>cscript ospp.vbs /act