Office Licensing question.

Question

I am planning to re-install Windows, but before that, I fired up a Virtual Machine and tested all the settings I wanted to do before installing it on the real hardware. I need to have Office 2019 installed as well and I also installed it on the VM. But after installing, I got a prompt that the license is only valid for about 3 days from now. If I run the script to show my license validation (cscript ospp.vbs in Office16 root directory), It more or saw said the same. But if I run the same command on my real host machine which had Office installed from the beginning, I get the message that the grace period has already been expired. What does all this mean? How am I still able to use Office just fine? Is this a problem, or going to be a problem? I am pretty sure my Office purchase was lifetime one.

Answer 1

Hello,

Thank you for posting here in Microsoft Community.

To answer your questions, if you have purchased an Office 2019 license (one time purchase license), you will not have an issue activating or downloading it as long as you still have access to the product key or the account where the license is tied to. Also, make sure to uninstall the Office from the old device prior to installing it on another device. The grace period you are seeing when checking the "Office Software Protection Platform (OSPP)" refers to a specific duration during which a software product remains functional even if it hasn’t been activated, which same concept as a free trial, that's why you will see different results on each platform or device where you have checked it.

I hope this information helps!

Regards,

Arquel C.

Microsoft Moderator