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Unable to licence Office apps due to shared computer error - 0x800004005
Hi, " the products we found in your account cannot be used to activate office in shared computer scenarios " I'm trying to activate o365 business but failing with the above error on one of ...
OK fixed it. For reasons unknown this users licensing mode was set to shared on his local machine, I have now changed this through the registry. After that I've been able to license the product.
I've also tried reinstalling Office using the installer downloaded from the 365 portal.
Also, this user only has 1 device mentioned in the o365 portal. His current laptop.