Check Microsoft Office License Status Mac

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If you have an Office for home product and you're looking for where to install Office, see Install or reinstall Office on a PC or Mac. To see what Office for home products you have a license for, sign in with your Microsoft account to Services and subscriptions. Once you have installed Microsoft Office 2013 / 2016 / 2019, you can validate that your license has been activated by following these steps: (Note: The screen shots below were taken in MS Office Word, but the process is similar in all Office programs.) Click on File tab.; Select Account. On the right-hand side of the screen, you will see the product activation information as displayed below.

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Applies to:Office for Mac, Office 2019 for Mac, Office 2016 for Mac

To use Office for Mac in your organization, it needs to be activated. How you activate Office for Mac depends on whether your organization has an Office 365 plan or has a volume license agreement. But in both cases your users won't have to enter any product keys.

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If you're an Office user trying to activate a personal copy of Office for Mac, follow these instructions instead of reading this article.

Activate Office 365 versions of Office for Mac

If your organization has an Office 365 plan, make sure you assign each user a license for Office before you deploy Office for Mac to your users. If you don't assign a user a license, you can still deploy Office for Mac to that user, but the user won't be able to activate and use Office.

For Office 365 customers, Office for Mac activates by contacting the Office Licensing Service on the internet. The Office Licensing Service keeps track of which users are licensed and how many computers they've installed Office on.

After you deploy Office for Mac, your users are prompted to activate Office the first time they use it. Make sure users are connected to the internet when they activate Office.

On the Sign in to Activate Office screen, users should select Sign In, and then enter their email address and password. After they sign in, users may see an alert asking for permission to access the Microsoft identity stored in their keychain. They should select Allow or Always Allow to continue.

While you can deploy Office for Mac for your users, your users need to sign in and activate Office for Mac for themselves. That's to ensure that the Office Licensing Service properly associates Office for Mac with the correct licensed user.

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A program on the Mac, the Office365ServiceV2 daemon, runs once a day to check the user's subscription status. The computer must be connected to the internet to contact the Office Licensing Service. If the computer can't contact the Office Licensing Service after nine days, the user sees a warning message when working in an app.

If the computer can't contact the Office Licensing Service after 30 days, Office goes into reduced functionality mode. This means that the user can open, view, and print existing documents in an Office app, but can't create or edit documents. The user also sees a message in the app that most features aren't available. After the user connects to the internet and the subscription status is verified, all the features of Office are available again.

For each user that you've assigned a license to in Office 365, you can deploy and activate Office for Mac on up to five Macs for the user. If you need to provide Office for Mac on a sixth computer for a user, you need to deactivate an existing installation first. Deactivating an installation doesn't remove Office for Mac from the computer. Instead, the installation goes into reduced functionality mode.

Users can sign into the Office 365 portal to deactivate an existing installation by going to My account > Install status > Manage installs. Or, you can deactivate an installation as an Office 365 administrator. Sign into the Office 365 portal, go to the admin center, and then go to Users > Active Users. Select the user, and then choose Edit for the Office installs property of the user.

Activate volume licensed versions of Office for Mac

To activate a volume licensed version of Office 2019 for Mac or Office 2016 for Mac, use the Volume License (VL) Serializer. You can download the VL Serializer by signing into the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC). You run the VL Serializer on each computer. By doing this, your users won't see any activation prompts when they first open Office 2019 for Mac or Office 2016 for Mac.

For more information, see Overview of the Volume License (VL) Serializer.

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In Office 365, licenses from licensing plans (also called SKUs or Office 365 plans) give users access to the Office 365 services that are defined for those plans. However, a user might not have access to all the services that are available in a license that's currently assigned to them. You can use Office 365 PowerShell to view the status of services on user accounts.

For more information about licensing plans, license, and services, see View licenses and services with Office 365 PowerShell.

Use the Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph module

First, connect to your Office 365 tenant.

Next, list the license plans for your tenant with this command.

Use these commands to list the services that are available in each licensing plan.

Use these commands to list the licenses that are assigned to a user account.

Use the Microsoft Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell

First, connect to your Office 365 tenant.

Next, run this command to list the licensing plans that are available in your organization.

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PowerShell Core does not support the Microsoft Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell module and cmdlets with Msol in their name. To continue using these cmdlets, you must run them from Windows PowerShell.

Next, run this command to list the services that are available in each licensing plan, and the order in which they are listed (the index number).

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Use this command to list the licenses that are assigned to a user, and the order in which they are listed (the index number).

To view services for a user account

Find Microsoft Office License

To view all the Office 365 services that a user has access to, use the following syntax:

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This example shows the services to which the user BelindaN@litwareinc.com has access. This shows the services that are associated with all licenses that are assigned to her account.

This example shows the services that user BelindaN@litwareinc.com has access to from the first license that's assigned to her account (the index number is 0).

To view all the services for a user who has been assigned multiple licenses, use the following syntax:

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