Like in earlier Office versions, when installing Office 2019/2016 or Office 365, a user is offered to try the product for free during 30 days. In 30 days trial some of the Office features are blocked, and a user is prompted to purchase a license and activate the product (using a retail/MAK key or a KMS activation), or to uninstall Office completely. However, there is a little trick that allows you to extend your Microsoft Office free trial period up to 180 days.
*Office 365 Rearm
*Rearm Office License
The MS Office package (both the classic MSI package of Office 2016/2013/2010 and the Click2Run distribution of Office 2019/Office 365) includes a special tool, ospprearm.exe, which is located in the directory:
*On 64-bit Windows versions with 32-bit Office version installed — %SystemDrive%Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16
*In other cases — %SystemDrive%Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice16Note
But now it is Microsoft itself that is making fun of Office 2019, the latest version of its iconic office suite. Although Office 2019 was just released this past September, Microsoft is urging you. Dec 20, 2016 The rearm command you used is almost applied to an Office 2013 KMS installation not Office 365 ProPlus and it is a resetting product key command. From your description, you are in a scenario that the Office 365 ProPlus licenses have expired. Apr 16, 2013 In recent years it has become common for Microsoft to release trial or preview versions of its big-name products. This has been the case with Windows 8 as well as Office 2013 giving consumer the chance to try before they buy. If you downloaded the trial version of the suite, you can gain some extra try-out time with this handy hack. Nov 27, 2018 Manually running OSPPREARM.EXE seems to work fine, at least it gives the rearm successful. Here is a screen from the BDD.log of the error: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 7:38 PM.
Microsoft Office 2019 Activator Method 1: Use code Step 1: You visit Step 2: You co.. Sometimes the file may be located in:
%SystemDrive%Program Files (x86)Common FilesMicrosoft sharedOfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatformOr%SystemDrive%Common FilesMicrosoft sharedOfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform
In any case, you can try to find the location of the ospprearm.exe file manually.
Open the command prompt as an administrator, and run the following command to change the directory:cd %SystemDrive%Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16To extend your trial version of Office for 30 days, run this command:OSPPREARM.EXE
The following message will appear:Please note that this license rearm method is only suitable for corporate versions of Office and Office 365 (Office 2016 vs Office 365: What’s the difference) licensed under the Volume Licensing (Standard, ProPlus and Enterprise editions). Accordingly, you won’t be able to reset the free trial time in retail editions (Home, Personal, University, etc.).
Thus, you rearm your Office 2016/365 copy and extend free trial to 30 days. You can run this command up to five (5) times on every 30 days of trial. Thus, you can extend the total time of using the Office 2016 trial version up to 180 days (6 * 30 days). You can check the current activation status and the number of days left for the grace period to end as follows.
cd %SystemDrive%Program Files (x86)Microsoft OfficeOffice16cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus
In this example, you can see that you have installed a trial version of Microsoft Office 2016 and there are 4 days left before the trial period ends.
When running the ospprearm.exe command:
*The trial period counter for Office resets to 30 days. The activation timer is frozen until the first launch of any of the Office apps;
*The computer CMID is reset (the KMS server determines unique clients according to this CMID. You can check the current CMID of the computer using the vbs script – see the KMS activation FAQ).Tip. This opportunity to extend the Office trial period is described on Microsoft website. However, it may be considered a violation of the license agreement. So you postpone the activation at your own risk. You can rearm your Office 2010/2013 trial in the same way.
Resetting a trial Office license using ospprearm.exe is useful if you are preparing a Windows reference image with Office preinstalled to deploy on a users’ computers via WDS, SCCM, or to manually install the image. Before capturing a reference Windows image, you need to reset the activation counter with the ospprearm command (and do not start Office apps until the image is captured). In this case, after deploying the Windows image on the user’s computer and after the first launch of any Office application, you can use Office without activation and restrictions for a full 30 days.How to Install Only Specific Apps in Office...September 25, 2020Outlook Keeps Asking For Credentials (Username and Password)April 8, 2020Office 365 RearmOffice 2019 Deployment Guide for Enterprise Using Deployment...March 23, 2020Managing Microsoft Office Settings with GPO Administrative TemplatesSeptember 11, 2019Rearm Office LicenseConfiguring KMS Server for MS Office 2019/2016 Volume...August 14, 2019
