Select the Download button for Office 2019 for Mac. Select Continue on the pop-up windows and download the.iso file that contains the VL Serializer package file. Once the download is complete, mount the.iso file to extract the VL Serializer package file (MicrosoftOffice2019VLSerializer.pkg). This is the video of how to download, install and activate MS Office 2016 on MAC OS X. Just have a look on it and try this experiment on your MAC and if you.
Office 2019 above
2019-06-03
Note that Office2019 DO NOT support activate via simple copy/paste plist license file which is the simplest way to activate Office 2016.Fortunately, you can also use the VL Serializer tool, just install Office 2019 and Serializer, then run Serializer to activate.
Ref
Activation Step
DO NOT RUN OFFICE APP AFTER INSTALLED, but just install Office 2019 for macOS
- manual download ref: https://macadmins.software/
or install via brew:
manual download and install Microsoft_Office_2019_VL_Serializer.pkg
run
Microsoft_Office_2019_VL_Serializerand it will automatic activate Office 2019open the office app, completed.
Note
If you alaways been asked for 'Sign in' and still requires activation, please try to remove Office license files on a Mac.Here is the official download link for Microsoft_Office_License_Removal tool. (thanks for @lidroider's comment)
The Serializer.pkg in this gist is signature by Microsoft Corporation Official.To check it, you can see details in this comment
Office 2016 16.11 for macOS VL2 license
2018-04-25
Ref
- VLSC ref: https://blog.csdn.net/cneducation/article/details/50573649
- License ref: https://bbs.feng.com/read-htm-tid-10731033.html
Activation Step
install Office2016 for mac with Office Suite Install, but DO NOT RUN OFFICE AFTER INSTALLED
- manual download ref: https://macadmins.software/
or install via brew:
copy license file
com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plisttoPreferencesrun the office app, completed.
Soon Microsoft are to release an update to the Office 2016 Volume License installer on VLSC.
This update is 15.17 & is the first that has a few changes that may affect the way you deploy Office 2016.
These changes are going to be later enforced in 15.20 & onwards. Below are some details on the changes, some of the why & how via the power of the MacAdmins.org Slack & the awesome @pbowden that some of us have had a sneak peek.
Contents
- 1 What’s Changing?
When you download the .iso from VLSC you’ll notice two packages within it:
The change is the new second pkg: “Microsoft_Office_2016_VL_Serializer.pkg”
What’s that about?
Well, for a while now it’s been fairly common practice to deploy the Office license to Macs outside of the Office installers or updates.
This came about as on occasion an Office Update or Installer would delete the file.
However, whilst the deletion itself was a bug, the ability to use the license.plist across Macs was also a bug.
What is it & should I use it?
With Office 2016, Microsoft are moving to a device based serialisation method. Which means that deploying the plist /Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensingv2.plist will no longer work.
This device based serialisation is based around the generating a license on the Mac that is to be running Office 2016.
So if you employ monolithic imaging or deploy Office 2016 via a Composer snap shot etc, the serialisation will not work. (Please don’t deploy Office 2016 via a Composer snap shot, use the pkg).
Also, if you install Office 2016 whilst booted to another volume (as in when installing via a NetBoot or NetInstall volume or something like Target Mode Imaging), again the serialisation will not work.
To install Office 2016 from another volume & have the serialisation work, cache it locally on the Mac being imaged & install on first boot or if using Casper Imaging check “Install on boot drive after Imaging” for the PKG from within Casper Admin.
However, to enable Office 2016 to be correctly licensed in the multitude of deployment scenarios that we mac admins employ, @pbowden & his team have created the “Microsoft_Office_2016_VL_Serializer.pkg”
Running this will correctly serialise the Office 2016 suite, & should be run from the Mac that’s running the suite. So again, can be added post imaging & then the suite will be correctly serialised.
To be clear, this will only affect you if using the Volume Licensed version of Office 2016 & not the Office365 version.
What happens if I carry on copying the licensing.plist?
For now, not much.
15.17 is the first release with the “Microsoft_Office_2016_VL_Serializer.pkg”, from 15.20 (scheduled for Q1 2016) you will have to use the correct license.
How did people find this out?
Microsoft Office For Mac 2016 Free Download
Well a little over a month ago a gentleman with the nick @pbowden hopped into the #microsoft-office channel on the MacAdmins.org Slack, this was awesome as @pbowden is a: Software engineer for Office for Mac/iOS at Microsoft, a fellow Brit & nice guy.
It’s been a great few weeks with the community sharing feedback with @pbowden & some of us being able to test pre-release installers for Office.
Microsoft Office 2016 For Mac Vl Serializer
I hope this warning has been as helpful to you, as it was when @pbowden shared it with us.