Outlook – How to upgrade existing Office 2013 to Office 365

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I have Office 2013 installed and configured and use it for everything including email.

How can I switch the license over to an Office 365 license? Is it possible or do I need to reinstall everything with the Office 365 installer?

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Asked MS support and they told me that you have to uninstall Office 2013 and reinstall Office 365 since they are two different suites

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Office 365 Offline installer package

You can get Office 2013 32 or 64-bit from here.

As Brad said above after installing one of the above you can activate using your Microsoft Account.

Office 365 Licensing – Change “Belongs to”

After scouring Google, I've managed to solve this in the following way -

As @HerbGu correctly states in their answer, the previous activation needs to be deactivated in order to change the 'Belongs to' field displayed in the software.

However, since Alice was unlicensed, the Office 365 portal did not show any installations which could be deactivated.

Therefore, I found the following method (as suggested by user 'MASQ' in this thread on Experts Exchange) worked:

Run (as admin) on the client:
 cscript.exe "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" /dstatus
Note the last 5 digits of the Key displayed - call them XXXXX
Now run (as admin):
cscript.exe "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" /unpkey:XXXXX 
This should undo "Belongs to" from the previous user (User A)
Now launch any Office app and let the replacement user (User B) log in with their 365 credentials

They should now appear in "Belongs to"

For completeness, here is a reference for the Office Software Protection Platform script (ospp.vbs) used above.

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Office 365 Offline installer package

Office 365 Licensing – Change “Belongs to”

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