"Carmen, my KMS host is serving Office 2016 keys. Office 365 clients are getting rejected. Can I convert the host?"
(his laptop). Then 4/25 . Then 12/25 . Other users, still online, were automatically reactivating as their Office clients performed their next background check-in. Office 365 Kms Activation
By 7 PM, the CEO sent a follow-up: "Never mind—Word just unlocked for everyone. What did you do?" "Carmen, my KMS host is serving Office 2016 keys
He saved the PowerShell script, documented the steps, and added a calendar reminder for 170 days from now: "Check KMS activation count." documented the steps
/ato succeeded.
It was 5 PM on a Friday.
cd "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16" cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus cscript ospp.vbs /remhost cscript ospp.vbs /sethost:kms.contoso.com cscript ospp.vbs /act