Getting error 0x8007005 Office 2013 H&B activation key

Anonymous
2013-02-17T10:21:11+00:00

MS Office 2013 guru's

Does anyone have the fix to the following:  Activation for Office 2013 Excel, Word etc.

 How do you want to activate your software?

  • I want to activate the software over the internet. (recommended)

Here is the error: Microsoft Excel

We're sorry, something went wrong and we can't do this for you right now. Please try again later. (0x80070005)

thanks

David

Microsoft 365 and Office | Excel | For home | Windows

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Anonymous
2013-04-18T11:24:54+00:00

Hi David,

In case you haven't already found the solution right click on Excel 2013 (or any other Office 2013 application) and select 'Run as Administrator' then follow the steps to activate online

Regards

Mark

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-01-06T09:41:01+00:00

    We have kind of the same issue, we prepare new systems for our customers and as part of that we buy and install Office 2013. Our process is as follows...

    * Setup new computer

    * Install Office2013 & Activate with customer Windows Live Account

    * Join to customer domain

    * Setup non-admin domain user

    The problem we have is that often after a few days the Office becomes unactivated, this happens on around 20-30% of machines. Often the customer tries to activate and gets the 0x8007005 error then calls us, we do the 'Run as admin' method but around 90% of the time this fails with the error the license has been activated to many times, we then have to activate via phone.

    Not only is this time consuming but it also makes us look incompetent.

    Has anyone else had issues with Office needing to be reactivated after domain join?

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-30T22:13:12+00:00

    To outflank that run cmd.exe in Admin mode

    and from within the command line start the word or excel

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-26T17:50:16+00:00

    Hello HarryB3,

    I do not think that this comes from an another software. I still have this problem on clean new computers without other softs. I think that this comes rather from the installation source.

    This would be why everyone does not have this problem

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-26T16:55:30+00:00

    Thank you for your answer. I had always de same problem and always actived by phone.

    Many thanks !

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