Microsoft office can't find your license for this application. a repair attempt was unsuccessful or was cancelled.

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I can confirm that fixing this registry keys has worked for me too and fixed the issue.

I've changed the values and rebooted.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sppsvc<key>:

Next time I opened OneNote 2016 on my Win10 it opened properly without the "Enter your product key" message.

Reason

I agree with TimothyMarchini in his post here:

• http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office\_2016-office\_install/microsoft-office-cant-find-your-license-for-this/86e1f00e-8f87-42e7-959f-2c52ba5313b6

that the reason is unclear, why this issue occurred.

This seems to be another good page describing a fix by fixing the permissions for the service (not tested):

• http://www.kapilarya.com/windows-could-not-start-the-software-protection-service

Background

I tried to find the documentation for this keys, which are configuring the services, but it seems that they are only documented explicit in the book:

• Russinovich, Mark; Solomon, David; Ionescu, Alex (2009), Windows® Internals (5th ed.), Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-7356-2530-1

You may be able to apply the changes by the services.msc user-interface too, because the registry keys and values used, are represented in the user-interface too:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\sppsvc<key>

• DelayedAutoStart: 0 (means no delay)
• Start: 2 (means "Automatically")
• Type Hex:20 (Decimal:32) (means, from https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/103000: A Win32 service that can share a process with other Win32 services.

I would like to chat with someone

please help me, I don't understand

I am having same problem with Server 2012 r2 and none of the suggestions have resolved.