How to activate microsoft office 2016 by phone

How to activate microsoft office 2016 by phone how to#

The German edition of the РІР‚С›Self Service for Mobile' site opens a French Microsoft site РІР‚вЂњ the English site opens an English Microsoft site. The tiny text, shown within the browser's lower left corner, was a hyperlink. Overall, the whole site looks obscure to me. Searching the web didn't gave me more insights at first. The Owner OrgName Jacada was unknown to me. Pretty short, isn't it? No Admin c, no contact person, and Microsoft isn't mentioned at all, but the domain has been registered till 2021.

Tying to obtain details about the owner of gointeract.io via WhoIs ended with the following record.

The subdomain microsoft used above doesn't belongs to a Microsoft domain, it points to a domain gointeract.io.

Also my further findings didn't calm the alarm bells in my head. That causes all alarm bells ringing in my head, because it's a typical behavior used in phishing sites. But my take down notice send to Go Daddy has never been answered. A compromised server, used as a relay by a phishing campaign, has been hosted (according to Whois records) by Go Daddy. I came across Go Daddy during analyzing a phishing campaign months ago. I've never noticed, that Go Daddy belongs to Microsoft.

The certificate was issued by Go Daddy (an US company) and ends on March 2017.

The image flagged in the mixed content issue was the Microsoft logo, shown within the sites header, transferred via http.

The content of the site was also delivered by Cloudflare (I've never noticed that case for MS websites before).

Inspecting the details, I found out, the site contains mixed content (an image contained within the site was delivered via http).

First of all, I noticed, that the РІР‚С›Self Service for Mobile' site doesn't belongs to a domain РІР‚вЂњ in my view a must for a Microsoft activation page.

Below are the details for the German version of the web site shown in Google Chrome (but the English web site has the same issues). That catches my attention, and I started to investigate the details. The popup shown for the web site РІР‚С›Self Service for Mobile' says, that there is mixed content (images) on the page, so it's not secure. Suddenly I noticed, that both, the German and also the English 'Self Service for Mobile' sites uses https, but are flagged as 'unsecure' in Google Chrome (see the screenshot below, showing the German edition of this web page. I managed to alter the link to direct it to the English Self Service for Mobile language service site.

My idea was, to mention the 'Self Service for Mobile' page within the new article. I didn't inspect the posted link until writing last Fridays blog post Office Telephone activation is no longer supported error. Obscurity, conspiracy, oh my God, what have they done?

Some users commented within my German blog, that this feature works like a charm. The user has to enter the installation id and receives the activation id РІР‚вЂњ plain and simple. The link http: // bit.ly/2cQPMCb, shortened by bit.ly, points to a website https: // /mobileweb/ РІР‚В¦ that provides an ability to activate Microsoft Office (see screenshot below).Р”Р„fter selecting a 6 or 7 Digits entry, an activation window with numerical buttons to enter the installation id will be shown (see screenshots shown below). Then a reader pointed me within a comment to a Self Service for Mobile website. I've posted an article Office 2010: Telefonaktivierung eingestellt? РІР‚вЂњ MerkwР“Сrdigkeit II about the Office 2010 telephone activation issue within my German blog, back in January 2017. A blog reader posted a tip: Use Mobile devices activationРІР‚В¦ But also users of Microsoft Office 2010 or Microsoft Office 2013 are affected.

Microsoft has confirmed this issue for Office 2016 users having a non subscriber installation. The activation dialog box shows the message ' Telephone activation is no longer supported for your product'. If a user re-installs Office, the phone activation fails. Within my blog post Office Telephone activation is no longer supported error I've addressed the basis issue. Activation by phone is required, if the maximum Internet activation threshold is reached. There are several possibilities to activate an installed product, via Internet or via Telephone for instance.

How to activate microsoft office 2016 by phone how to#

Microsoft describes how to activate Microsoft Office 2013, 2016 and Office 365 within this document.