First, Microsoft gave up on developing its Edge web browser. You can see this in what might first look to you like two unrelated developments. And the money is in cloud-based services. Microsoft is continuing to move its business model to where the money is. In Microsoft’s last quarter, Microsoft reported that its Office revenue increased 11%, which was driven by Office 365 Commercial revenue growth of 34%.
Back in 2015, I pointed out that Microsoft made only 10% of its revenue from Windows sales. Instead, it wants you to rent a service from it forever and a day. Microsoft doesn’t want to sell you bits on a floppy, CD, DVD or download anymore. What does Microsoft’s marketing push against itself mean? It means that it is moving from being a product company to being a service company.
In the software industry, a 16-year drought for killer apps was once inconceivable. What exactly can you add to an office suite these days, anyway? As far as I’m concerned, the last worthwhile “new capabilities” came with Office 2003.
In this case, after deploying the Windows image on the user’s computer and after the first launch of any Office application, you can use Office without activation and restrictions for a full 30 days.I’m sure the line of users wanting to sign up for those “new capabilities” is already forming. Before capturing a reference Windows image, you need to reset the activation counter with the ospprearm.exe command (and do not start any Office apps until the Windows image capture is complete).
Resetting a trial Office license using ospprearm.exe is useful if you are preparing a Windows reference image with Office preinstalled to deploy on a users’ computers via WDS, SCCM, or to manually install the image.
You must re-install the OS before trying to re-arm again. An error has occurred.ĭescription: The security processor reported that the maximum allowed number of re-arms has been exceeded. On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run 'slui.exe 0x2a 0xc004d307' to display the error text.
Passing the SKU ID is necessary if you are relying on an activation to permit an additional rearm. You can try passing the SKU ID as a parameter. There was an error when trying to rearm Office. If the remaining number of rearms for the Office trial license is 0, you will receive error 0xc004d307 when running OSPPREARM.EXE. The remaining trial period is 30 days, you can renew the license up to 3 times ( Remaining App rearm count: 3).Įach time the license is extended via ospprearm.exe, the counter is decremented by 1. If a corporate edition of Office 2019 is installed on the computer, for example, Office 19, Office19ProjectPro2019VL_KMS_Client_AE editionthen its description should look like Office 19, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel or Office 19, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel. You can extend the trial period only 1 time ( Remaining App rearm count: 1). In this example, the retail trial edition of Office is installed on the computer ( Description: Office 19, RETAIL Grace channel). For example, for Office 2019, you need to find the line: Name: Office 19, Office19ProPlus2019xxx Find the section in the list that refers to MS Office. This command will display information about all Microsoft products on your computer. You can check the current CMID of the computer using the ospp.vbs script – see the KMS activation FAQ).
You can reset the free trial period in retail editions (Home, Personal, University, etc.) only once. Please note that this license rearm method is only suitable for corporate versions of Office and Office 365 ( Office 2016 vs Office 365: What’s the difference) licensed under the Volume Licensing (Standard, ProPlus, and Enterprise editions).