I have faced a quite weird issue where Office package (O365) gives an error as “Couldn’t verify subscription Excel/Word couldn’t verify your Office 365 subscription. Please make sure that you’re connected to the Internet.”, even though I have an appropriate license for Office 365.
I got some solution on it and fixed my issue. So I thought to share this info in my blog.
Solution:
- Open a command prompt in admin mode and then take one of the following actions.
- If you have installed the 64-bit version of Office 2013 / 2016 (O365), move to the following folder:
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office15 or Office 16
- If you have installed the 32-bit version of Office 2013/ 2016 (O365), move to the following folder:
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office15 or Office 16
- If you have installed the 64-bit version of Office 2013 / 2016 (O365), move to the following folder:
- Type the following command to display the license status. Note the last five characters of any and all license keys that display in the output
cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus
3. Now run the following command as many times as needed to remove all of the license keys you noted from the previous step (without the “<>”)
cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:<last five characters of product key>
4. Once you successfully remove the key from command, close command prompt and restart your machine.
5. Launch one of the MS office 2013 and 2016 applications. The application should prompt you to reactive by providing your sign-on IT. Enter your credentials and the software will be now licensed under that ID. It might take some time for the license to update.
This is quite easy and quick to execute.
Cheers,
Udhyan.
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Very Helpful, thank you.
In my case, I’d switched subscriptions but the previous subscriptions were expired but still present.
I removed the two old expired subscriptions and my verification issues ended, no reboot required.
Great stuff, worked out for me, thanks a million Udhyan!
My pleasure 🙂
Thank you sir! – I have spend hours trying to get to the bottom of this problem and, much to my relief, you have provided the solution – you have my utmost appreciation.
I very rarely leave forum post comments, but I needed to tell you how much I appreciate your post! I had done a “reset” on a Windows 10 machine, and when I installed Office 2016 (C2R) I encountered this issue. After spending hours trying to fix it via Microsoft troubleshooting garbage, and having Office remove itself twice due to running the Online Repair Install, I found this fantastic post which resolved the issue in under 5 minutes. Bravo and Thank you very much!
As an IT administrator, I really, really appreciate this post. I too, spent hours looking for a solution to Office365 ProPlus activation issues in an RDS environment to no avail. Concise, precise and to the point. Bravo!
My pleasure.
Thank you so much! Having to sign every time I opened up an Office app was getting on my nerves! This fixed the issue flawlessly!
Worked for me! Thank you!
Perfect! This was driving me up the wall!
You’re a saviour!
perfect!!! thanks for sharing
Worked perfectly after I switched accounts and couldn’t get rid of that stupid message. Thanks!!!
Thank you!
This problem was giving me a headache.
Office 2016 multiple Server RDS farm, when user logs in they get No Installed product keys was detected, all credentials already removed. When logging in, prompts to authenticate. Connects brings up Outlook, and shows logged in, but unable to verify persists. Any other ideas??
Sorry when I run this they get No installed product keys was detected, all users can login and multiple other users on the same RDS server do not have this issue. Its isolated to this one user.
Much appreciated for the solution, helped me fix my Finance Directors machine in under 5 mins. I did however, find that a restart would then show more keys – I had to restart 4 times to get through all of the keys.
I made a quick script for those on 64bit:
CD “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16”
cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus
SET /P KEY=Please enter the key you wish to remove:
cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:%KEY%
Save as a .bat and run as admin. It’ll prompt you for the key you want to remove, then remove it.
Ypu can always change the location depending on your needs. Just my way of giving back 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. I am so grateful for your help to resolve this issue.
Saved my Sunday. OMG very good! Thank you so much 🙂
You are the best. PS: Microsoft Knowledge is useless on this issue.
Thank you very much. I spent hours finding a solution and u just saved so much of my time
My pleasure.
It works! Great job
Spot on, thanks a million!
please i need an assistant…my system saying most of the excell features have been disabled
Thank you very much for spending the time to share this. You have made a very late night even shorter. By the way, this works for a shared instance on a Remote Desktop Server. That was my scenario.
thanks that solve the issue
This is great and worked perfectly for me. Thanks!
Fucking retard this just removed my license at all, so It do not ask me again about licenses but my products still unlicensed. Do not share this kind of things that only work for certain cases
Was beating my head against the wall on this. Solution is AWESOME. Ran Command prompt as Admin – all is good now.
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For me, it was a single PC that had the Network List Service stopped in services.msc. Starting that resolved the issue.