Forum Discussion

BCMInd1260's avatar
BCMInd1260
Copper Contributor
Jul 04, 2021

Microsoft Office Standard 2019 volume license activation

Hello I am new to this forum and wanted to ask a question - I had downloaded a configuration.xml file from https://config.office.com and installed MS Office Standard 2019 (Volume License) through Off...
office 2019
BCMInd1260's avatar
BCMInd1260
Copper Contributor
Jul 06, 2021

davidbmarker 

You can see the content of Configuration file :-

 

<Configuration ID="8b4eb8be-3d7c-43e5-bd62-d2599ad52ec2">
<Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="PerpetualVL2019">
<Product ID="Standard2019Volume" PIDKEY="6NWWJ-YQWMR-QKGCB-6TMB3-9D9HK">
<Language ID="en-us" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
<ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive" />
<ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Outlook" />
<ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />
</Product>
<Product ID="LanguagePack">
<Language ID="en-us" />
</Product>
</Add>
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="0" />
<Property Name="SCLCacheOverride" Value="0" />
<Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="0" />
<Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="FALSE" />
<Property Name="DeviceBasedLicensing" Value="0" />
<Updates Enabled="TRUE" />
<RemoveMSI />
</Configuration>

 

I also ran this config file using command prompt as an admin with Office Deployment Tool (setup.exe).

Do i have to connect to KMS server for successful activation of MS Office?

 

davidbmarker's avatar
davidbmarker
Brass Contributor
Jul 06, 2021

BCMInd1260,

  So the key you have is a  Generic Volume License Keys (GVLK), and you will need to replace it with your MAK client activation key. If you want to use the KMS, you will need to stand up a KMS server on your network and license the KMS server to accept the GVLK of your Office Product.

 

KMS vs. MAK; Biggest difference is that KMS requires you to "re-activate," which is automatically done every 180 from client to KMS server to need some connection (VPN).

Resources