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So, after signing up for a subscription, a letter comes to our mail at the end of which, which many usually skip and delete the letter, there is such information about the product:
Office 365 Personal -
Thank you for purchasing the 12-month Office 365 Personal.
Your credit card account will now be debited. If you do not cancel the renewal before the renewal date, the subscription will be automatically renewed at the end of the term and your account will be charged the current price (price may change).
You can manage your subscription at Office.com/myaccount
First, to cancel the subscription, go to the office.com/myaccount link, go through the authorization, then select "account management".
Then at the top of the page you will see a message stating that you will lose access to the Office 365 suite and everything else that is included in this package looks scary, but after clicking on "Continue Canceling" we will see more detailed text.
As you can see, everything is not so scary as it seemed on the previous page. It explains to us that we will lose access to the subscription only after the subscription is not automatically renewed. Feel free to click "Confirm Cancellation".
That's all, now your free subscription has become completely free without any tails like automatic renewal (who bought paid subscription planning to use it for only a year, also pay attention to whether you have auto renewal enabled). 
- = Bonus = -
We press to enable automatic renewal (if necessary, enter the data for authorization) and see the following:
If you want to get an additional month of subscription (why not?) Then click on "Turn on automatic renewal" (it's okay, after we get our extra month, we'll turn it off again)
As expected, instead of April 20, 2017, the subscription will already be valid until May 20, 2017. Now we turn off automatic renewal again as described above.
That's all =)
- You can unsubscribe and receive a refund within 30 days from the date of purchase.
- Go to the Services & Subscriptions website. You can see the login prompt.
- Find a subscription and select Payment and billing → Cancellation... If you don't see a subscription, make sure you're signed in to the correct Microsoft account for the subscription.
- Please select Confirm cancellation... In folder Inbox find the confirmation email.
- If you don't see the cancellation option and it's been less than 30 days since you bought your subscription, try the following solutions:
- Check to see if there is a debt on another Microsoft subscription. If so, you must pay the balance before you can cancel your subscription.
- Make sure your subscription is prepaid. It will end with the expiration date and you do not need to do anything. Prepaid subscriptions cannot be canceled and recurring billing cannot be turned off.
- If you try to cancel your subscription but more than 30 days have passed since purchase, you will be charged for the entire subscription period. Turn off auto-renewal so that you won't be charged after your subscription expires.
Disable automatic renewal of subscription
Execute following instructions for all Microsoft subscriptions including Xbox and Office.
- If you want to stop your subscription, but more than 30 days have passed since the date of purchase, turn off automatic renewal so that the fee will not be charged after the subscription expires. You can use your subscription until it is terminated. You will find the expiration date in the message Email that was sent at the time of purchase of the subscription.
- Disable automatic updates:
- Go to the Services & Subscriptions website. You can see the login prompt.
- Find a subscription and select Payment and billing management → Change → Disable recurring billing... If you don't see a subscription, make sure you're signed in with the correct account Microsoft for this subscription.
- Click on Confirm cancellation... In the inbox of your mailbox find the confirmation email.
- If the function automatic update does not turn off, do the following:
- Check this or another Microsoft subscription for a debt. If so, you must pay the balance before you can turn off auto-renewal.
- Make sure your subscription is prepaid. It will end with the expiration date and you do not need to do anything.
- If you are charged for the next month after you turn off auto-renewal, the shutdown may have occurred after the expiration date.
Many have heard of Microsoft's Office 365 product, but few know that you can get Office 365 for home for free. He offers besides the most latest version Office (2016 at the time of writing), but also 1 TB cloud storage OneDrive, 60 monthly Skype mobile / landline calls and up to 5 computers. Tempting offer, right? In this article, I'll show you how to get it for free.
To begin with, it is worth informing that the product will be completely legal and tied to your account (you must first create it, if you do not have one). Microsoft has a promotion where you can get Office 365 for home for free for a month, but we won't stop at a month.
Get a free trial version of Office 365 for a month
To get started, go to the Office 365 trial page and click "Try this month for free."
You will be redirected to the trial purchase page. Do not be intimidated by the word "acquisition", because it is figurative. Although, in any case, you need to indicate a valid card (Visa or Master Card) for a trial subscription.
You will be debited from your card 30 rubles, which will be returned within a few days.
After completing these simple steps, you will find yourself on the page Personal account Office. There will be Office 365 Home and also an auto-renewal sign. If you do not want money to be debited from the card, select “ Account management».
On the payment and billing page, opposite the automatic renewal of the subscription, click " Change"And select" Turn off automatic renewal».
Ready! Auto-renewal of the subscription is disabled, money will not be debited from the card after the expiration date. You can also remove the card itself from the account, but this is at your request. Now let's move on to the fun part - how to multiply the validity period of Office 365 Home for free and for a long time.
The fact is that Microsoft has a loyalty program for Office 365 products. As part of it, every Office 365 user who contacts technical support for Office questions can get 1 or 2 months completely free.
How to contact support
You can contact support in 2 ways:
- Through the application "Getting Help"
- Or through the support site
In the description of the appeal, you can describe any question regarding Office, for example:
After choosing the topic of the appeal, you can choose the type of communication - Phone or Chat, choose what is more convenient for you.
Office 365 Home Free for 1 Month
The essence of the loyalty program is to increase the trust in the product and the customer's disposition to re-purchase.
A free month will be provided if the support employee managed to solve your problem and if you have auto-renewal enabled, you will be offered 1 month. After that, a letter was sent with instructions to the mail, to receive a month.
Office 365 Home free for 2 months
2 months are provided according to an absolutely similar scheme, but with one difference - auto-renewal must be turned off. Upon solving your question or problem, the employee will offer you to enable auto-renewal, after consent, you will receive another 2 months, which will be sent to your mail.
Do not hesitate, because this offer is temporary and may end at any time. I'll make a reservation that I paid for an Office 365 subscription for a year (the product is really very convenient), but could not resist renewing the subscription for a couple of months 🙂
As in earlier versions office suite, at installing Office 2019/2016 or Office 365, the user is offered the opportunity to test the product for free for 30 days. After 30 days, the functionality of the Office applications is partially blocked, and the user is offered to purchase a license and activate the product (retail / MAK key or), or. However, there is a small trick to extend the trial period of the trial version. Microsoft Office up to 180 days.
Included with MS Office (as in classic MSI package Office 2016/2013/2010 and Click2Run distribution / Office 365) includes special utility ospprearm.exe which is in the directory:
- 64 bit Windows versions with 32 bit version of Office -% SystemDrive% \ Program Files (x86) \ Microsoft Office \ Office16
- Otherwise,% SystemDrive% \ Program Files \ Microsoft Office \ Office16
Note... In some cases, the file may be located in the directory
% SystemDrive% \ Program Files (x86) \ Common Files \ Microsoft shared \ OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform \
Or
% SystemDrive% \ Common Files \ Microsoft shared \ OfficeSoftwareProtectionPlatform \
In any case, you can try to find the location of the ospprearm.exe file manually.
Run command line with administrator rights and go to this directory:
Cd% SystemDrive% \ Program Files (x86) \ Microsoft Office \ Office16
To extend the term of use of the trial Office versions run the command for 30 days:
A message should appear: Return to original state Microsoft Office activation completed successfully /
note that this way license renewals are only suitable for corporate editions of Office and Office 365 () licensed under the Volume Licensing scheme (Standard, ProPlus and Enterprise). Accordingly, you will not be able to extend the period of free use of retail versions (Home, Personal, University, etc.).
This resets the counter of days remaining until the end of product use to 30 days. This command can be run up to 5 times before the trial expires. In this way, you can extend the total time spent using the trial version of Office 2019/365. up to 180 days(6 * 30 days). You can find out the current activation status and the number of days left until the end of the license:
CD% SystemDrive% \ Program Files (x86) \ Microsoft Office \ Office16
cscript ospp.vbs / dstatus
LICENSE NAME: Office 16, Office16ProPlusR_Grace edition LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 16, Retail (grace) channel LICENSE STATUS: ---- OOB_GRACE ---- ERROR CODE: 0x4004F00C ERROR DESCRIPTION: The software Licensing Service reported that the application is running within the valid grace period. REMAINING GRACE: 4 days (6499 minutes before expiring)
V this example it can be seen that you have installed trial version Microsoft Office 2016 and there are 4 days left until the trial period ends.
When running the ospprearm.exe command:
- The MS Office trial usage counter is reset to 30 days. This freezes the timer until the first launch of any of the Office applications;
- The CMID of the computer is reset (according to this CMID, the KMS server determines unique clients. You can check the current CMID of the computer using the ospp.vbs script - see).
Note... This possibility of extending the use of the trial version of Office is documented on the Microsoft website. However, this can be considered a violation license agreement... Therefore, you carry out the delay of activation at your own peril and risk. The trial mode renewal process in Office 2010/2013 is in progress.
Resetting the temporary Office license state using ospprearm.exe is useful if you are preparing a Windows master image with Office preinstalled for distribution to users' computers via WDS, SCCM, or manual installation... Before capturing the reference image, you must reset the activation counter with the ospprearm command (and not start Office applications until the image is captured). In this case, after deployment Windows image on the user's computer and after the first launch of any Office application, you will be able to use Office without activation and restrictions for a full 30 days.
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