Well the easiest way I've gotten either non commercial unlicensed or red bar activation failed is to screw up the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\OfficeSo ftwareProtectionPlatformĪnd start office. or wait for activation bypasses that render the difference meaningless. I'm convinced any method to convert will be sloppy junk, and anyone who wants to go from VL to Retail or vice versa might as well uninstall/reinstall. This is too sloppy though, as to account for anything that the user could install, one would have to make a install with all office apps and use the tokens.ĮDIT: Doesn't work, license got stored but office asked for retail key when opened, so this is useless. I then removed the keys for Visio and Project, activating retail installed Pro Plus with KMS. I used my files from my real PC (圆4 Win 7 with 32 Bit Office Visio, Pro Plus, and Project Pro), to a VM with just Pro Plus, I ran command 4 on the batch file and it installed keys for Visio and Project even though they weren't there, and they were at 30 days, then I ran KMS, and all got 180 days. I need to retrace my steps as I messed with a bunch of things, but I think you can get tokens that are VL, copy them over to your machine, reinstall the key (using the keychanger).
I successfully found a way to convert Retail to VL.
