Windows OS Hub / MS Office / Configure KMS server for MS Office 2016 Volume Activation. First of all, you have to find and copy a KMS Host key for Office 2016 in your personal section on Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) website. Are you trying to activate Outlook with an Office Home and Student 2016 license? The Office Home & Student license does not come with Outlook. If you would like to use Outlook, you can switch to a different Office 365 home subscription. If you would like to keep the license you have, we recommend you drag the Outlook app to Trash to delete it.

Microsoft released Office 2016 today, so organizations could be weighing their upgrade prospects. The product's availability may depend on what kind of customer you are. Volume licensing customers have to wait to get it on Oct. 1 from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center, a Microsoft spokesperson confirmed today via e-mail. This volume licensing version actually bears a slightly different product name -- it's called 'Office Professional Plus 2016.' Even though volume licensees have to wait for Office Professional Plus 2016 to arrive next month, it's still available today.

For instance, Microsoft's MSDN subscribers can download the bits today at the MSDN download portal. Office 2016 as a boxed retail product is sold through the. Possibly, it's not yet more broadly available at retail store outlets or it isn't being advertised. For instance, at Amazon.com just produced a reference to Office 365 products, which will deliver the Office 2016 upgrade, but there wasn't a standalone boxed Office 2016 product listed as being available., though, did advertise Office 2016 editions. The Microsoft spokesperson suggested that Office 2016 can be bought now in retail stores. 'Perpetual versions of Office 2016 are available online and in all major retail outlets worldwide,' the spokesperson claimed.

Some Features Depend on Office 365 Quite a lot of new and upcoming features in Office 2016 have a focus on. However, many of those new features depend on having an Office 365 subscription in place and aren't available in the standalone boxed product.

For instance, the Groups feature, which lets users create private or public teams, only lights up with an Office 365 subscription. In addition, the Data Loss Prevention feature, which wards off sharing sensitive documents, is dependent on, such as the Enterprise E3, E4 and K1 plans. Install Caveats The organizations that may move somewhat quickly to Office 2016 likely are Office 365 subscribers of some sort. These organizational subscribers typically are running a product called 'Office 365 ProPlus,' which is currently based on the Office 2013 version. Consumer Office 365 subscribers can upgrade to Office 2016 via their 'My account' option, as described in. Microsoft delivers its Office 365 updates monthly via its 'click-to-run' streaming technology.