Legal way to use Office 365 totally FREE without paying a dime
In a previous post here, I have shown you guys how to download and install Office 365 Multi-language using online installer downloaded directly from the Microsoft homepage. The new installation includes a 30-day free trial license by default. After that, most important features will be disabled. It means your work will be discontinued unless you pay for Office 365 subscription. If you are in financial difficulties, this is so bad, I know. To help you overcome this problem, I recommend using KMS licene key to activate your Office. For those of you guys who don’t already know, KMS license is almost similar to the trial one. It is totally free, legal and is valid for 180 days only. But don’t worry about the period because it can be renewed easily.
Remove your current trial license
This step is optional if your trial license was expired. However, if it is still valid, you need to remove it. Because in some cases, after you activate your Office using KMS license, important features are resumed but the expiration notification still remains. Follow the instructions in this post to uninstall the trial license.
Make sure your computer is ready
You need to check your internet connection again and make sure that the Windows Update service is turned on. KMS license has to be verified by making a connection to my KMS servers before it can be used. So you need to check if the KMS server is blocked or not. This is pretty simple. Just open your internet browser and try visitting this site: http://kms8.msguides.com. If it is visible, this means my KMS server is not blocked.
Activating your Office 365 using KMS client key
1. Manual method
Step 1.1: Open command prompt as admin.
First, you need to open command prompt with admin rights, then follow the instruction below step by step. Just copy/paste the commands and do not forget to hit Enter in order to execute them.
Step 1.2: Navigate to your Office folder.
If you install your Office in the ProgramFiles folder, the path will be “%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16” or “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16”. It depends on the architecture of the Windows OS you are using. If you are not sure of this issue, don’t worry, just run both of the commands above. One of them will be not executed and an error message will be printed on the screen.
cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16
cd /d %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16
Step 1.3: Convert your Office license to volume one if possible.
If your Office is got from Microsoft, this step is required. On the contrary, if you install Office from a Volume ISO file, this is optional so just skip it if you want.
for /f %x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\proplusvl_kms*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%x"
Step 1.4: Use KMS client key to activate your Office.
Make sure your PC is connected to the internet, then run the following command.
cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:XQNVK-8JYDB-WJ9W3-YJ8YR-WFG99
cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:BTDRB >nul
cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:KHGM9 >nul
cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:CPQVG >nul
cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:107.175.77.7
cscript ospp.vbs /setprt:1688
cscript ospp.vbs /act
If you see the error 0xC004F074, it means that your internet connection is unstable or the server is busy. Please make sure your device is online and try the command “act” again until you succeed.
Here is all the text you will get in the command prompt window.
C:\Windows\system32>cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cd /d %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16
The system cannot find the path specified.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>for /f %x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\proplusvl_kms*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%x"
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlusVL_KMS_Client-ppd.xrm-ms"
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplusvl_kms_client-ppd.xrm-ms
Office license installed successfully.
---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlusVL_KMS_Client-ul-oob.xrm-ms"
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplusvl_kms_client-ul-oob.xrm-ms
Office license installed successfully.
---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlusVL_KMS_Client-ul.xrm-ms"
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplusvl_kms_client-ul.xrm-ms
Office license installed successfully.
---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:XQNVK-8JYDB-WJ9W3-YJ8YR-WFG99
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:BTDRB >nul
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:KHGM9 >nul
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:CPQVG >nul
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:107.175.77.7
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
Successfully applied setting.
---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /setprt:1688
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
Successfully applied setting.
---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /act
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
---Processing--------------------------
Installed product key detected - attempting to activate the following product:
SKU ID: d450596f-894d-49e0-966a-fd39ed4c4c64
LICENSE NAME: Office 16, Office16ProPlusVL_KMS_Client edition
LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 16, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel
Last 5 characters of installed product key: WFG99
---Exiting-----------------------------
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>
2. Using batch script
This one is not recommended anymore due to the new update of Microsoft.
Step 2.1: Copy the code below into a new text document.
@echo off
title Activate Office 365 ProPlus for FREE - MSGuides.com&cls&echo =====================================================================================&echo #Project: Activating Microsoft software products for FREE without additional software&echo =====================================================================================&echo.&echo #Supported products: Office 365 ProPlus (x86-x64)&echo.&echo.&(if exist "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" cd /d "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16")&(if exist "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" cd /d "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16")&(for /f %%x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\proplusvl_kms*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%%x" >nul)&(for /f %%x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\proplusvl_mak*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%%x" >nul)&echo.&echo ============================================================================&echo Activating your Office...&cscript //nologo slmgr.vbs /ckms >nul&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /setprt:1688 >nul&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /unpkey:WFG99 >nul&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /unpkey:DRTFM >nul&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /unpkey:BTDRB >nul&set i=1&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /inpkey:XQNVK-8JYDB-WJ9W3-YJ8YR-WFG99 >nul||cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /inpkey:NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP >nul||goto notsupported
:skms
if %i% GTR 10 goto busy
if %i% EQU 1 set KMS=kms7.MSGuides.com
if %i% EQU 2 set KMS=107.175.77.7
if %i% GTR 2 goto ato
cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /sethst:%KMS% >nul
:ato
echo ============================================================================&echo.&echo.&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /act | find /i "successful" && (echo.&echo ============================================================================&echo.&echo #My official blog: MSGuides.com&echo.&echo #How it works: bit.ly/kms-server&echo.&echo #Please feel free to contact me at [email protected] if you have any questions or concerns.&echo.&echo #Please consider supporting this project: donate.msguides.com&echo #Your support is helping me keep my servers running 24/7!&echo.&echo ============================================================================&choice /n /c YN /m "Would you like to visit my blog [Y,N]?" & if errorlevel 2 exit) || (echo The connection to my KMS server failed! Trying to connect to another one... & echo Please wait... & echo. & echo. & set /a i+=1 & goto skms)
explorer "http://MSGuides.com"&goto halt
:notsupported
echo ============================================================================&echo.&echo Sorry, your version is not supported.&echo.&goto halt
:busy
echo ============================================================================&echo.&echo Sorry, the server is busy and can't respond to your request. Please try again.&echo.
:halt
pause >nul
Step 2.2: Save it as a batch file. (eg. office365.cmd).
Step 2.3: Run the batch file with admin rights. (important!).
Done! Your Office is activated successfully.
Note:
- I only test this method with Office 365 ProPlus version. I am not sure it will work with the others.
- Step 3 is flagged “important” because the UAC system will stop this process if you don’t do it.
How to renew your Office 365 license
By default, your license will be renewed automaticaly every seven days but in some cases, it can be stuck. So you need to renew the license manually. Just follow instructions here.
If you would have any questions or concerns, please leave your comments. I would be glad to explain in more details. Thank you so much for all your feedback and support!
bhy bhut thank you mene bhut saare methods try kiye lkin ye sach m kaam kr gya bro m tmhe bta nii skta ki main kitna khush hua love you bro g*d bless you
Thank you so much! G*d bless you. Manual method worked for me. Thanks :)))))
it activates to office pro plus 2016 help ASAP!!
O*G Thank you so much! I’m not getting any message to buy office 365.
You are my savior bruh, i can not express how happy i am, we just need guys like you who dosen’t leads me to some torjan or miners into my computer.
i can never every express how you helped me!
Thank you, worked 100% 2020…
Does this allow access to One Drive?
Guang after following your online instructions to download, install and activate the so call office 365 in to my pc, I wanted to confirm it is indeed office 365 that was actually installed. But upon logging in to check the account information I found that it is office 2016 that was activated and registered instead of office 365 as claimed. Why? What went wrong? Kindly advise.
thank youuuuu you so so so much. question, do i have to renew it every 180 days using the same way? thank you in advance
o*g thank you sooooooooooooooooo much
you are a life saver
Hi,
First of all, I thank you for your guidance. It was wonderful with office 2019. A perfect activation.
BUT I face an issue with 365. It says, it is activated…but when I open the office, it demands email id etc. When I open in offline, it asks for key. I cancelled it and then open the blank doc, it takes me to just office 2019..and when I check the version under account, it shows only office 2019…nothing much.
Do you want me to start with trial subscription and then move on to ms.guide activation?
Can you tell me how to proceed?
Thank you!
These options are more than true, they are real. actually manages to activate the office. thank you very much .. recommended to everyone.
It activates successfully however it shows old ui not office 365 exclusive ui. is their anyway to get latest ui?
kms method won’t get cloud service.
today my office 365 will be expired. testing the 1st method. working great.! thank you
Hello! Thank you very much! I felt like crying these days because I love PowerPoint and not being able to use it for quite some time made me sad. You are a lifesaver! It worked 100%! I hope it maintains thank you!
I TESTED THE 2 METHOD WITH ALL THE VERSIONS IT WILL ACTIVATE ALL FROM 2010 TO 365
this was a really great help. thank you so much..
I did the process as described in this website for office 365 activation process, activation completes successfully but after that I activated Office 365 not Microsoft Professional Plus. I only need to use office 365 not Microsoft Professional Plus. What is the problem???
Install Office 365 will automatic upgrade to office 2016 pro plus in windows 8.1 or under. If you on windows 10, will automatic upgrade to office 2019 pro plus and latter version. This is the Office 365 buying point.
Even use retail key will have same result.
For how many days this can work, without paying any amount.?
180 days. after 180 days if you online again, will automatic renew activation back to 180 days.
Method 1 keeps the license to office 16. method 2 worked once but now it isnt working. can you help?!
It looks like the server is down, so the 365 isn’t working
Hope they can fix it
It activates microsoft 2016 pro plus license. it used to work with 365, are you unable to do that anymore or is there a different way for activating using a microsoft 365 pro plus license?
kms8.msguides.com server is currently down
C:\Windows\system32>ping kms8.msguides.com
Haciendo ping a kms.03k.org [121.196.29.254] con 32 bytes de datos:
Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud.
Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud.
Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud.
Tiempo de espera agotado para esta solicitud.
Estadísticas de ping para 121.196.29.254:
Paquetes: enviados = 4, recibidos = 0, perdidos = 4
(100% perdidos),
ERROR CODE: 0xC004F074
ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the product could not be activated.
No Key Management Service (KMS) could be contacted. Please see the Application Event Log for additional information.
To view the activation event history run: cscript ospp.vbs /dhistorykms
NOTICE: A KB article has been detected for activation failure: 0xC004F074
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /dhistorykms
ERROR DESCRIPTION: Run the following: cscript ospp.vbs /ddescr:0xC002001C
—————————————
Coordinated Universal Time Written: 14/05/2020 02:03:48 a.m.
ERROR/HOST: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, kms8.msguides.com
ERROR DESCRIPTION: N/A
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Coordinated Universal Time Written: 05/07/2020 01:59:09 a.m.
ERROR/HOST: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, kms8.msguides.com
ERROR DESCRIPTION: N/A
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Coordinated Universal Time Written: 30/04/2020 01:54:36 a.m.
ERROR/HOST: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, kms8.msguides.com
ERROR DESCRIPTION: N/A
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Coordinated Universal Time Written: 23/04/2020 12:31:38 a.m.
ERROR/HOST: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, kms8.msguides.com
ERROR DESCRIPTION: N/A
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Coordinated Universal Time Written: 16/04/2020 12:26:56 a.m.
ERROR/HOST: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, kms8.msguides.com
ERROR DESCRIPTION: N/A
—————————————
Coordinated Universal Time Written: 04/09/2020 12:22:12 a.m.
ERROR/HOST: 0xC002001C, 0x00000000, kms8.msguides.com
ERROR DESCRIPTION: Run the following: cscript ospp.vbs /ddescr:0xC002001C
—————————————
Coordinated Universal Time Written: 04/02/2020 12:17:23 a.m.
ERROR/HOST: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, kms8.msguides.com
ERROR DESCRIPTION: N/A
—————————————
Coordinated Universal Time Written: 26/03/2020 12:15:30 a.m.
ERROR/HOST: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, kms8.msguides.com
ERROR DESCRIPTION: N/A
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Coordinated Universal Time Written: 18/03/2020 05:20:57 a.m.
ERROR/HOST: 0x00000000, 0x00000000, kms8.msguides.com
ERROR DESCRIPTION: N/A
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Thank you so much I’ve been trying to activate my office all day and finally worked with this!!
This method is the only one that works, whoever created this is genius. Good explanation. 👏👏👏
Hi Tried applying the commands everything is executed as shown in the page but the product is not activated. and i tried method 2 as well by creating a batch file and applying it still i didn’t get my product activated. Please help
The only way success is the KMS activation method must run by admin right online.
hi! it worked
HI, i have an error message on trying to activate Office professional plus 2013. Error – NO office KMS licence where found on the system
Use method 1 for activation. first find where your office program install.
Hi, i tried using this(https://msguides.com/office-2010-2013-free-kms-license) method to activate 2013,2016 but both failed. But the method on this page worked on 2016 version. Thanks a lot
I’ve tried reinstall the office 365 (directly from Microsoft’s page) and I’ve executed the commands by the manual method. It not worked. What can I do?
Is not work? Any error show up?
I did the procedures that our friend ROHIT GOSWAMI explained. It worked! I’ve installed the office from your .iso file and runned the commands. Thank you very much!!!
Doing this converts the Office 365 (2019) Pro Plus edition to Office 2016 Pro Plus VL; and removes several features of Office 365 (2019) Pro Plus Edition. The serial key is for 2016 edition VL, not for 2019 edition or latest 365.
Install Office Pro plus will automatic upgrade to Office 2016 pro plus or Office 2019 pro plus, this is the main feature of Office 365 pro plus. When come up new version of Office, will keep on upgrade. No need to change the key for new version. Even you buy retail version of Office 365 pro plus, will get the same result.
Yeah I think Arisma is right on this one. Your instructions here activated Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2016, whereas if this was really Microsoft 365 it would at least be on Microsoft Office 2019.
Hi, I installed office365proplus via your office deployment guide method, I had activated office multiple times with this method, even activated for a friend 1 days ago, but now I’m getting following error via the batch script method – “Sorry! Your version is not supported.
Please try installing the latest version here: bit.ly/odt2k16”.
Also, got licence consumption error via manual activation, kindly help.
top community click in. create a question with activation photo. I will try solve out for you.
Ok, after busting my head for the last 5-6 days to resolve the “We’re sorry but excel has run into an error that is preventing it from working correctly” error, it gave me the following options – “Repair Now, Help & Close”.
Tried all possible online solutions, uninstalling office completely, repairing etc., installing office 2016 from your .iso download file, what finally worked for me was installing Office 2019 from your .iso download link.
I was able to successfully activate it too with your kms manual activation method for 2019, everything is working as expected, also, installed office updates.
Thanks a lot for sharing this with us here on your site.
Only thing I noticed is, I installed from the setup after mounting the.iso, it automatically installed the 32 bit version, even though my OS is 64 bit, but I’m happy as that doesn’t matter to me.
Thanks again for your work.
If yours windows system is 32 bit, it automatic installed 32 bit version. Otherwise, you can choose between 32 bit or 64 bit install.
I know, but it picked the 32 bit version automatically, but my windows OS is 32 bit, never mind, I think 64 bit had some issues, I’m happy until it works without any issues.
I used method 1(manual method)
this error showed instead of Product activation successful
any suggestion?
As this is KMS licence. How much will it work. For 180 days? What to do after that? Btw which organization KMS is this?
after 180 days, anytime you online again, it will reactivate back to 180 days.
Anyone buy KMS Host key from Microsoft can run their own server.