Activations of Office Home & Business 2013

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Hello there people of the forums.

I work for a little IT firm which has been asked by one of our customers to install Office 2013 Home & Business on a number of computers for their company. The amount of installs is less than 15, so we've priced up and purchased a number of retail licences

for each of the computers.

In the past, when I have installed any Microsoft software in this way, I have simply had to insert the installation media (or download it) and activate each individual installation with the individual key. Not as fancy as volume licensing, but it did the

job.

Now when I've tried doing a similar thing with Office 2013, it requires an individual's login details to install office, and after that the installation is for ever listed on that user's microsoft account. That's fine if I'm installing Office for the Managing

Director of the company (it's unlikely he's going to be leaving the business any time soon) but for the average computer user, I want to be able to install Office so it's not attached to any user's account. Have we bought the wrong licenses, and if that is

the case, as a workaround can I set up all the licenses on one account and have them as a pool of licenses for the company? How would that affect online services like Skydrive etc.?

On a side note, I have actually found that once I have activated one of these Home & Business keys, I'm then able to install it on any computer (and as many computers) as I like as long as I use the same key and log in. I keep reading that Office 2013

is for ever only able to be installed on one PC, but this doesn't seem to be the case. We've already bought 15 licenses, but it seems we could have gone down the (and obviously less honest) route of buying one license, activating against the boss, or against

a generic business account, and using that to download office on to all of the business's computers.

 

 

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