How do I stop Office 365 activation pop up?

In some cases Office 365 through a University of Minnesota subscription will install but not activate, and standard troubleshooting does not help. Removal of license files from previous Office installations may solve the problem. These directions are intended for use with Office 365 on personally-owned computers, not University-owned computers. See directions below.

Windows: Removing Office 365 License Files

1. Open a command prompt as Administrator:
   1. Type CMD into the Windows Search
   2. Right-click on the Command Prompt icon
   3. Click Run As Administrator
   4. Click OK to the popup.
2. In the command window, type in the following 2 commands:

   cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16

   cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus

3. Look for output similar to the following (some details omitted):

   ERROR CODE: 0xC004FC07

   ERROR DESCRIPTION: The Software Licensing Service reported that the validity period expired.

   Last 5 characters of installed product key: WXYZ9   Important! WXYZ9 is an example!

   Note the last 5 characters listed in your output. It's WXYZ9 in this example, but will be different on your computer.
    

4. In the command window, type the following, but use your 5-character key instead of the WXYZ9 example:
   cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:WXYZ9
5. Repeat step 4 for any additional product keys listed in step 3.
6. When complete, re-run the following in the command window:
   cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus

The following output shows success (some details omitted):

---Processing--------------------------

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<No installed product keys detected>

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If the above process worked, you can try again to activate Office.

See also similar directions here:

Mac: Removing Office 365 License Files

Additional Information

• For general Office 365 troubleshooting: Office 365 for Students, Faculty, and Staff: Troubleshoot Installation and activation
• If you need help applying these directions, contact Technology Help in one of the ways shown here: it.umn.edu/help

Reappearing the pop-up “lets get started” is disturbing to users while opening the MS Office.

To solve this problem, Back-up the below registry value and delete it. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\OEM
For backup, export the current registry keys and delete it.
Steps to get rid of Office 2016 activation popup
1. Close activation screen.
2. On the Start menu, click Run.
3. Type regedit, and then press Enter.
4. Select the following key in the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\OEM
5. Right-click the OEM value and click File>Export.
6. Save the key
7. Once the key is backed-up, click on Edit>Delete
9. Repeat steps 4-7 with following key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\OEM

Exit Registry Editor

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