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Script to detect Office 2016 activation method?

  • February 2, 2018
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We're planning to move away from a serialized volume license for Office 2016, which will require users to activate their existing copies of Office using O365. I've found that Outlook doesn't handle this very well and just goes into Offline mode instead of prompting the user to activate, which will be confusing and create help desk tickets. I'd like to build something to address that.

I can detect a serialized installation by looking for the license file we install, but I don't know how to detect if a copy of Office has been activated by the user. Does anyone have any insight into a method for checking that via script? Is there a file I can look for or an executable I can query?

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    talkingmoose
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    • talkingmoose
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    • February 2, 2018

    I have a whole post about this on Jamf's blog: Steal this script!.

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      • alexjdale
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      • February 2, 2018

      Thanks! I literally just found that a few minutes ago and am already tearing it apart for an extension attribute and other scripts.

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      • tthurman
      • Valued Contributor
      • February 2, 2018

      office2016="/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist"

      office365=/Users/$userName/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/com.microsoft.Office365.plist

      These might help - along with what @talkingmoose posted.

      EDIT
      You'll need to populate the $userName variable. :)

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      • gk2344
      • New Contributor
      • February 5, 2018

      This is what we use...

      !/bin/sh

      If com.microsoft.office.licensingV2plist exists

      if [ -f "/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensingV2.plist" ]; then result="Yes"

      If com.microsoft.office.licensingV2plist does not exist

      else result="No"
      fi

      Output result

      echo "<result>$result</result>"

      Exit script

      exit 0

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