No Credentials Error When Activating Office 2016 For Mac

Da_Schmoo wrote: I think you can only have 5 licenses tied to each Microsoft account you create so you're going to end up with multiple accounts you need to keep track of. You'll need to document what goes where for when/if you need to reinstall. It's 30 activations on Office 2013 per Microsoft account.

I've got multiple email aliases pointing to the same domain mailbox to handle that. Office 2016 seems to handle the product key/activation process the same way, I can only hope there is a higher threshold for number of allowed activations. I'm done with Office. Avchd converter for mac. I have informed my clients that I will no longer be supplying Microsoft Office. Tripmode for mac. I have recommended that they move to Open Office with Mozilla Thunderbird as an email client. I know this likely won't be possible for larger organizations, but my biggest client has less than 100 computers. I've given them the choice to go to a subscription model if they absolutely cannot do without office, which is what Microsoft wants.

So Microsoft has indeed succeeded in cutting out this middleman! I had an hour long call with the Licensing service help desk. The upshot of which is, The key you get on your Product card is a temporary activation key (my take away) Once you have activated that using an email address, your actual Product Key is listed on your Microsoft account 'my account' page. You get to it via the I want to install Office> I have a disk> what is my Product Key link which is appropriate to the Date that you first activated that particular Product Key. You need to keep a record of what PC you install which Product Key on, using Which email address. Because, the Product Key is locked to the email address and (apparently) the hardware configuration. There is a lot more to it than that, but you'd probably be better off spending your time searching for an alternative product.