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Need a 2016 Office Pro License

Anonymous
2022-06-03T16:34:35+00:00

I am a bit baffled on how to handle this issue. I work at an MSP and we have a need to purchase a MS Office 2016 Pro License for a customer. Due to changes in the MS Licensing model, we believe the easiest way is to have the customer purchase the license through the MS store, to then apply to the installation, which is already in place and waiting for a key. The customer does not have VLSC so I assume it will need to be an individual MS account purchase.

Any insight?

Thanks

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-06-03T17:42:35+00:00

    Yes the customer has been operating their production reporting system with MS Office 2010 installed on a 2008 R2 Server utilizing Access to odbc to their internal AS400 and then via nightly scheduled tasks run reports and send out via outlook mail to customers etc...
    The old dev guys also uses TOAD to run updates back to the AS400 and the local Access DB's and just discovered a hosted web page db as well.
    That's my next hurdle..

    The customer knows they need to address the reporting issue, but our goal is to move them over to a 2016 Server with Office 2016 installed.

    We tested before licensing and we know it works.

    So we need a license to install on this new 2016 server to do all this.

    This is under the assumption that the license for Office 2016 is still per client and not per user.

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  2. DaveM121 878.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-06-03T17:21:59+00:00

    Hi Larry

    I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    Yes, licensing these days is tied to the users Microsoft Account, which enables them to re-install Office any time they need to, so, the user must purchase the licence themselves.

    With regards to Office 2016, Microsoft only sell the latest version of Office, which currently is Office 2021, is there a reason the customer specifically needs the 2016 version?

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  3. DaveM121 878.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-06-03T17:57:04+00:00

    Hi Larry

    The best option would be to find a genuine Microsoft Partner online, one of them may still have an Office 2016 licence for sale.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-06-03T17:55:35+00:00

    Negative, the VB code on the back of access will not work in Office365 Access.
    They know they need to redesign all of this and they are looking at a couple of options.

    But as I said they need to have Office 2016 installed on this server for this to work.

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  5. DaveM121 878.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2022-06-03T17:50:05+00:00

    Hi Larry

    Most likely that will also work with Office 2021, if it works on Office 2016.

    However, if you specifically need an Office 2016 licence you would need to look elsewhere, because Microsoft no longer sell that version

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