Upgrade Office 2013 Pro Plus to Office 2016 Pro Plus on RDS Windows 2012 R2

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Upgrade Office 2013 Pro Plus to Office 2016 Pro Plus on RDS Windows 2012 R2

Steven 46

Hi,

We bought an office 2016 Pro Plus some years ago and, for a compatibility reason, we downgrade the installation on our RDS server (Windows 2012 R2) to Office 2013 Pro Plus.

Today, I want to upgrade to my true Office 2016 Pro Plus licence. My office is on OLP
Here's my Microsoft Open License Order Confirmation :

WirﬂîmtDsktpcsCAL 2016 Single OLP NL UsrCAL, product number 6SVC-03224
OﬁiceProPlus 2016 Single OLP NL, product number 79P-05552

Can you guide me what's the setup file I will need to upgrade my current 2013 to 2016 on my Terminal server? Will it create some office account reset or something?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

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Emily Hua-MSFT 27,796

@Steven

> Can you guide me what's the setup file I will need to upgrade my current 2013 to 2016 on my Terminal server?

Generally, if you want to upraged Office to a later version, you need to uninstall previous one first. And then you may install the newer version.

> Will it create some office account reset or something?

Could you please explain more about this "office account reset"?
For volumn licensed Office, such as Office ProPlus 2016, we may use KMS or MAK to activate it, it is licensing on a device basis instead of per account. If you want to connect some cloud-services, then you need to login in the corresponding accounts.

Any questions or updates, please let me know.

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Steven 46 Reputation points

2020-12-01T14:50:03.797+00:00

What I mean by "account reset" : I want to know if each terminal server user will lost his personnal config (probably if I need to uninstall 2013 to install 2016)

At least, will they keep their Outlook profile? (I want to know if I will have to resetup each email account)

That will be the first time I will install Office on a terminal server. I uninstall Office 2013, install office 2016 and after that each user will open their session in office 2016 like if nothing happened?

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@Steven

In general, reinstalling Office won’t delete your email, contacts, calendar etc. Your account settings information would be also preserved. But to be on the safe side, I suggest you back up them before uninstalling Office.

To backup email, contacts, and calendar to an Outlook .pst file, please refer to "Export or backup email, contacts, and calendar to an Outlook .pst file".
To export and backup user Outlook Profile, please refer to "How To Export And Backup User Outlook Profile?"
(Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.)

For Word global template (Normal.dotm) which would save a user's custom settings, please go to C:\Users\<user name >\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates, back up Normal.dotm.

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