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Jun 04, 2019 For each user that you've assigned a license to in Office 365, you can deploy and activate Office for Mac on up to five Macs for the user. If you need to provide Office for Mac on a sixth computer for a user, you need to deactivate an existing installation first. Deactivating an installation doesn't remove Office for Mac from the computer. Office 2019 is a one-time purchase that comes with classic apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint for PC or Mac, and does not include any of the services that come with an Office 365 subscription. One-time purchases don’t have an upgrade option, which means if you plan to upgrade to the next major release, you’ll have to buy it at full price.
- Mar 25, 2020 How to Activate Microsoft Office on PC or Mac. This wikiHow teaches you how to activate Microsoft Office on PC and Mac. If you have an Office 365 subscription to you don't need to activate Office, you can just sign in with your Microsoft.
- Under your Office 365 subscription, look for the Expires on date or a Cancel link as described below. If you don't see a Cancel link, and you see Paid with and None, your trial will end on the Expires on date. You don't need to cancel because no future payments will be made. If you see a Cancel link under Office 365 Home, select Cancel to cancel your trial.
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If you're not using the new Microsoft 365 admin center, you can turn it on by selecting the Try the new admin center toggle located at the top of the Home page.
Watch a short video about removing an employee.
If you found this video helpful, check out the complete training series for small businesses and those new to Microsoft 365.
To remove an employee:
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the box next to the user's name, and then select Reset password.
Enter a new password, and then select Reset. (Don't send it to them.)
Select the user's name to go to their properties pane, and on the OneDrive tab, select Initiate sign-out.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the user, and then select Reset password.
Enter a new password, and then select Reset. (Don't send it to them.)
Select the user again, expand OneDrive Settings, and then select Initiate next to Sign-out.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the user, and then select Reset password.
Enter a new password, and then select Reset. (Don't send it to them.)
Select the user again, expand OneDrive Settings, and then select Initiate next to Sign-out.
Within an hour - or after they leave the current Office 365 page they are on - they will be prompted to sign in again. (An access token is good for an hour, so the timeline depends on how much time is left on that token and whether they navigate out of their current webpage.)
CAVEAT: If the user is in Outlook on the web, just clicking around in their mailbox, they may not be kicked out immediately. As soon as they select a different tile, such as OneDrive, or refresh their browser, the sign out is initiated.
To use PowerShell to sign out a user immediately, see Revoke-AzureADUserAllRefreshToken cmdlet.
For more information about how long it takes to get someone out of email, see What you need to know about terminating an employee's email session.
Overview of all the steps to remove an employee and secure data
A question we often get is, 'What should I do to protect data when an employee leaves the organization?' This article explains how to block access to Office 365 and the steps you should take to secure your data.
Note
If you are a global administrator you can delete the employee, forward their email, choose what to do with their OneDrive content using the new guided experience. For more information, see Global admin: Delete a user. However, we recommend completing all of the additional steps listed here to ensure the employee doesn't have access to your company's data.
Here's a quick overview. Each step is explained in detail in this article.
| Step | Why do this |
| 1. Save the contents of a former employee's mailbox | This is useful for the person who is going to take over the employee's work, or in case of litigation. |
| 2. Forward a former employee's email to another employee or convert to a shared mailbox | This lets you keep the former employee's email address active. If you have customers or partners still sending email to the former employee's address, this gets them to the person taking over the work. |
| 3. Wipe and block a former employee's mobile device | Removes your business data from the phone or tablet. |
| 4. Block a former employee's access to Office 365 data | It prevents the person from accessing their old Office 365 mailbox and data. Tip: When you block a user's access, you're still paying for their license. You have to delete the license from your subscription to stop paying for it (step 5). |
| 5. Move the employee's OneDrive content | If you only remove a user's license but don't delete the account, the content in the user's OneDrive will remain accessible to you even after 30 days. Before you delete the account, you should move the content of their OneDrive to another location that's easy for you to access. After you delete an employee's account, the content in their OneDrive is retained for 30 days. During that 30 days, however, you can restore the user's account, and gain access to their OneDrive content. If you restore the user's account, the OneDrive content will remain accessible to you even after 30 days. |
| 5a. What if the person used their personal computer to access OneDrive and SharePoint? | If they used a personal computer instead of a company-issued computer to download files from OneDrive and SharePoint, there's no way for you to wipe those files they stored. They will continue to have access to any files that were synced to their computer. |
| 6. Remove and delete the Office 365 license from a former employee | When you remove a license, you can assign it to someone else. Or, you can delete the license so you don't pay for it until you hire another person. When you remove or delete a license, the user's old email, contacts, and calendar are retained for 30 days, then permanently deleted. If you remove or delete a license but don't delete the account, the content in the user's OneDrive will remain accessible to you even after 30 days. |
| 7. Delete a former employee's user account | This removes the account from your admin center. Keeps things clean. |
Save the contents of a former employee's mailbox
There are two ways you can save the contents of the former employee's mailbox:
Add the former employee's email address to your version of Outlook 2013 or 2016, and then export the data to a .pst file. You can import the data to another email account as needed. To learn how to do this, see Get access to and back up a former user's data.
OR
Place a Litigation Hold or In-Place Hold on the mailbox before the deleting the user account. This is much more complicated than the first option but worth doing if: your Enterprise plan includes archiving and legal hold, litigation is a possibility, and you have a technically strong IT department.
Once you convert the mailbox to an 'inactive mailbox,' administrators, compliance officers, or records managers can use In-Place eDiscovery tools in Exchange Online to access and search the contents.
Inactive mailboxes can't receive email and aren't displayed in your organization's shared address book or other lists.
To learn how to place a hold on a mailbox, see Manage inactive mailboxes in Exchange Online.
Forward a former employee's email to another employee or convert to a shared mailbox
In this step, you assign the former employee's email address to another employee, or convert the user's mailbox to a shared mailbox that you've created.
Creating a shared mailbox is the less expensive way to go because you won't have to pay for a license as long as the mailbox is smaller than 50GB. Over 50GB and you'll need to assign a license to it.
If you convert the mailbox to a shared mailbox, all the old email will be available, too. This can take up a lot of space.
If you set up email forwarding, only new emails sent to the former employee will now be sent to the current employee.
Email forwarding requires that the former employee's account has a license.
Important
If you're setting up email forwarding or a shared mailbox, at the end, don't delete the former employee's account. The account needs to be there to anchor the email forwarding or shared mailbox.
Note
If you're not using the new Microsoft 365 admin center, you can turn it on by selecting the Try the new admin center toggle located at the top of the Home page.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the name of the employee that you want to block, and then select the Mail tab.
Under Email Forwarding, select Manage email forwarding.
Turn on Forward all email sent to this mailbox. In the Forwarding address box, type the email address of the current employee (or shared mailbox) who's going to get the email.
Select Save.
Remember, don't delete the former employee's account.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the employee that you want to block and expand Mail Settings.
Next to Email forwarding, select Edit.
Turn on Forward all email sent to this mailbox. In the Forwarding address box, type the email address of the current employee (or shared mailbox) who's going to get the email.
Select Save.
Remember, don't delete the former employee's account.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the employee that you want to block and expand Mail Settings.
Next to Email forwarding, select Edit.
Turn on Forward all email sent to this mailbox. In the Forwarding address box, type the email address of the current employee (or shared mailbox) who's going to get the email.
Select Save.
Remember, don't delete the former employee's account.
Wipe and block a former employee's mobile device
If your former employee had a organization phone, you can use the Exchange admin center to wipe and block that device so that all organization data is removed from the device and it can no longer connect to Office 365.
Go to the Exchange admin center.
In the Exchange admin center, navigate to Recipients > Mailboxes.
Select the user, and under Mobile Devices, select View details.
On the Mobile Device Details page, under Mobile devices, select the mobile device, select Wipe Data, and then select Block.
Select Save.
Tip: Be sure you remove or disable the user from your on-premises Blackberry Enterprise Service. You should also disable any Blackberry devices for the user. Refer to the Blackberry Business Cloud Services Administration Guide if you need specific steps on how to disable the user.
Block a former employee's access to Office 365 data
Important
Blocking an account can take up to 24 hours to take effect. If you need to immediately prevent a user's sign-in access, you should reset their password and then initiate a one-time event that will sign them out of Office 365 sessions across all devices. See Sign out now!
Note
If you're not using the new Microsoft 365 admin center, you can turn it on by selecting the Try the new admin center toggle located at the top of the Home page.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the name of the employee that you want to block, and under the user's name, select the symbol for Block this user.
Select Block the user from signing in, and then select Save.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the employee that you want to block, and then select Block sign-in.
Select Block the user from signing in, and then select Save.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the employee that you want to block, and then select Block sign-in.
Select Block the user from signing in, and then select Save.
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Block a former employee's access to email (Exchange Online)
If you have Office 365 email as part of your Office 365 subscription, you need to log in to the Exchange admin center to follow these steps to block your former employee from accessing their email.
Go to the Exchange admin center.
In the Exchange admin center, navigate to Recipients > Mailboxes.
Double-click the user and go to the Mailbox features page. Under Mobile Devices, select Disable Exchange ActiveSync and Disable OWA for Devices, and answer Yes to both when prompted.
Under Email Connectivity, select Disable and answer Yes when prompted.
Remove and delete the Office 365 license from a former employee
So you don't continue paying for a license after someone leaves your organization, you need to remove their Office 365 license and then delete it from your subscription. If you choose not to delete the license from your subscription, you can assign it to another user.
When you remove the license, all that user's data is held for 30 days. You can access the data, or restore the account if the user comes back. After 30 days, all the user's data (except for documents stored on SharePoint Online) is deleted permanently from Office 365 and can't be recovered.
Note
If you're not using the new Microsoft 365 admin center, you can turn it on by selecting the Try the new admin center toggle located at the top of the Home page.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the name of the employee that you want to block, and then select the Licenses and Apps tab.
Clear the check boxes for the license(s) you want to remove, and then select Save changes.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the employee that you want to block, and then next to Product licenses, select Edit.
On the Product licenses page, toggle off the license(s) you want to remove, and then select Save.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the employee that you want to block, and then next to Product licenses, select Edit.
On the Product licenses page, toggle off the license(s) you want to remove, and then select Save.
To reduce the number of licenses you're paying for until you hire another person, do the following:
- In the admin center, go to the Billing > Products & services page.
- In the admin center, go to the Billing > Subscriptions page.
- In the admin center, go to the Billing > Subscriptions page.
- Select Add/Remove licenses to delete the license so you don't pay for it until you hire another person.
When you add another person to your business, you'll be prompted to buy a license at the same time, with just one step!
For more information about managing user licenses for Office 365 for business, see Assign licenses to users in Office 365 for business, and Remove licenses from users in Office 365 for business.
How the deleted employee account affects Skype for Business
When you remove a user's license from Office 365, the PSTN calling number associated with the user will be released. You can assign it to another user.
If the user belongs to a queue group, they will no longer be a viable target of the call queue agents. So, we recommend also removing the user from the groups associated with the call queue.
Delete a former employee's user account
After you've saved and accessed all the former employee's user data, you can delete the former employee's account.
Don't delete the account if you've set up email forwarding or converted it to a shared mailbox. Both need the account to anchor the forwarding or shared mailbox.
Note
If you're not using the new Microsoft 365 admin center, you can turn it on by selecting the Try the new admin center toggle located at the top of the Home page.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the name of the employee that you want to delete.
Under the user's name, select the symbol for Delete user. Choose the options you want for this user, and then select Delete user.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the name of the employee that you want to delete.
At the top of the page, select Delete user. Choose the options you want for this user, and then select Delete user.
In the admin center, go to the Users > Active users page.
Select the name of the employee that you want to delete.
At the top of the page, select Delete user. Choose the options you want for this user, and then select Delete user.
When you delete a user, the account becomes inactive for approximately 30 days. You have until then to restore the account before it is permanently deleted.
Does your organization use Active Directory?
If your organization synchronizes user accounts to Office 365 from a local Active Directory environment, you must delete and restore those user accounts in your local Active Directory service. You can't delete or restore them in Office 365.
For instructions, see this article: Delete a User Account.
If you are using Azure Active Directory, see the Remove-MsolUser PowerShell cmdlet.
What you need to know about terminating an employee's email session
Here's information about how to get an employee out of email (Exchange).
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| What you can do | How you do it |
| Terminate a session (such as Outlook on the web, Outlook, Exchange active sync, etc.) and force to open a new session | Reset password |
| Terminate a session and block access to future sessions (for all protocols) | Disable the account. For example (in the Exchange admin center or using PowerShell): Set-Mailbox user@contoso.com -AccountDisabled:$true |
| Terminate the session for a particular protocol (such as ActiveSync) | Disable the protocol. For example (in the Exchange admin center or using PowerShell): Set-CASMailbox user@contoso.com -ActiveSyncEnabled:$false |
The above operations can be done in 3 places:
| If you terminate the session here | How long it takes |
| In the Exchange admin center or using PowerShell | Expected delay is within 30 min |
| In the Azure Active Directory admin center | Expected delay is 60 min |
| In an on-premises environment | Expected delay is 3 hours or more |
How to get fastest response for account termination
Fastest: Use the Exchange admin center (use PowerShell) or Azure Active Directory admin center. In an on-premises environment, it can take several hours to sync the change through DirSync.
Fastest for a user with presence on-premises and in the Exchange Datacenter: Terminate the session using Azure Active Directory admin center/Exchange admin center AND make the change in the on-premises environment as well. Otherwise, the change in Azure Active Directory admin center/Exchange admin center will be overwritten by DirSync.
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'I have the 2011 edition Microsoft Office and I was trying to install the new 2016 apps, but they would not update. I was suggested uninstalling the older version first and try again. But I don't know how to do that. How do I uninstall Microsoft Office from my Mac including all its apps?'
You may want to uninstall Microsoft Office for Mac or just uninstall word on Mac for fixing some bugs in the existed apps or installing the updated version. No matter what kind of situation you are facing, here's the answer you are searching for about how to properly uninstall Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft Office applications on Mac: uninstall Office 2011/2016, Office 365 on Mac.
1. Microsoft Office Removal Tool for Mac?
Microsoft Office Removal Tool is an official uninstallation app offered by Microsoft, which allows users to completely remove any version of Microsoft Office and all of its apps, including Office 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016 as well as Office 365.
Unfortunately, this removal tool only works for Windows system, such as Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10. To uninstall Microsoft Office on Mac, you can either remove them manually or use a third-party uninstaller utility. If you want to completely uninstall MS Office from Mac, jump to Part 3 to learn about FonePaw MacMaster Uninstaller for Mac.
2. Uninstall Office 365 (2011/2016) on Mac Manually
Note that to uninstall Office 365 on your Mac manually requires to be signed in as an administrator on the Mac.
Uninstall Office 365 (2011) on Mac:
Step 1: Quit all the Office applications first, no matter it is Word, Excel, PowerPoint or OneNote.
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Step 2: Open Finder > Applications.
Step 3: Locate Microsoft Office 2011 folder. And then remove Office from Mac to Trash.
Step 4: Check whether there is anything you still want to keep in Trash. If not, empty Trash and restart the Mac.
Uninstall Office 365 (2016) on Mac:
Completely uninstalling Office 365, the 2016 edition, on Mac includes three parts.
Part 1. Remove MS Office 365 Applications on Mac:
Step 1: Open Finder > Applications.
Step 2: Press 'Command' button and click to select all the Office 365 applications. '
Step 3: Ctrl + Click the selected applications and then choose 'Move to Trash'.
Part 2. Delete Office 365 Files from Mac:
Step 1: Open Finder. Press 'Command + Shift + h'.
Step 2: In Finder, click 'View > as List'.
Step 3: Then click on 'View > Show View Options'.
Step 4: In the dialog box, tick 'Show Library Folder' and click 'Save'.
Step 5Microsoft word toolbar missing mac. : Back to Finder, head to Library > Containers. Ctrl + click or right-click on each of these folders below if present, and select 'Move to Trash'.
com.microsoft.errorreporting
com.microsoft.Excel
com.microsoft.netlib.shipassertprocess
com.microsoft.Office365ServiceV2
com.microsoft.Outlook
com.microsoft.Powerpoint
com.microsoft.RMS-XPCService
com.microsoft.Word
com.microsoft.onenote.mac
Step 6: Click the back arrow to go back to Library folder. Open 'Group Containters'. Ctrl + click or right-click on each of these folders below if present, and select 'Move to Trash'.
UBF8T346G9.ms
UBF8T346G9.Office
UBF8T346G9.OfficeOsfWebHost
Part 3. Remove Office Apps from Dock:
Step 1: If any Office apps are put in the dock on your Mac. Locate each of them.
Step 2: Ctrl + click and choose 'Options'.
Step 3: Select 'Remove from Dock'.
After all the steps above, restart your Mac to finish the uninstallation for MS Office completely.
3. Uninstall Microsoft Office on Mac Easily
If you find there are too many steps in the manual operation and if you are tired of following all the steps, the Uninstaller in FonePaw MacMaster can help you a lot.
FonePaw MacMaster's Uninstaller allows you to quickly uninstall Microsoft Office and all the associated files from Mac within just a few clicks. It is easier in operation than you uninstalling them manually. What's more, it can also clean up system caches and other junk files on your Mac.
Here's how to uninstall Office on Mac with MacMaster's Uninstaller:
Download and launch FonePaw MacMaster.Select 'Uninstaller' at the left sidebar.
Click on 'Scan' to scan out all the apps installed on your Mac.
In the app list, click on all of the Microsoft Office apps. If there are too many apps to locate the Office apps, use the search bar at the upper right.
Type in the app's name and select it.Click on 'Clean' button. After the cleanup process, all of the Microsoft Office apps are uninstalled completely from your Mac.
FonePaw MacMaster can also clean duplicate files, cache files, browsing history, iTunes junks and more on your Mac.
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