{"id":119,"date":"2018-11-08T13:18:03","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T18:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T19:44:11","slug":"office-365-changing-the-office-installation-account-after-a-user-is-deleted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"Office 365 &#8211; Changing the office installation account after a user is deleted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When a user leaves the company before doing anything else you should deactivate their Office installations so that the existing install can be assigned to a new user.&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t do this, Microsoft recommends uninstalling and reinstalling Office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve found that you can trigger a new user activation of Office by modifying the following key:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\<br>\nMicrosoft\\Office\\<br>\nClickToRun\\Configuration\\O365BusinessRetail.EmailAddress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Upon opening any Office application it asks to activate like a fresh installation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a user leaves the company before doing anything else you should deactivate their Office installations so that the existing install can be assigned to a new user.&nbsp; If you don&#8217;t do this, Microsoft recommends uninstalling and reinstalling Office. I&#8217;ve found that you can trigger a new user activation of Office by modifying the following [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stuffifiguredout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}