Windows 10: The new Office 2016 is here

Late news (I know from experience) is that when installing Office 365 you may be asked to activate; however, when you click on the link to activate, it says, "We're sorry, but something went wrong and we can't do this for you right now. Please try again later. Then you get the error number 0x8004FC12."

The most likely solution to this will be to do Option 1, then Option 2, then Option 3, shutting down and rebooting after each option and the opening Word to see if it asks you to activate. You will no longer be asked to activate once the right Option's done. *Smile

The reason I'm saying to do the options one behind the other in turn, is that I jumped to Option 3, thinking that was the problem solver, on one of my laptops. It was not. I then started over with Option 1 and went all the way through Option 4; none of which worked. So, please, start with Option 1.

And the link is: https://support.office.com/en-us/art...c-94959b222bd3

If none of the above options work, read on . . .

I had checked for updates to Windows 10 Build 10547 earlier and saw that one for IE was pending and that I needed to restart, but since I was working with O365, I postponed any Windows Update action until I was through.

O365 was still giving me the error after several trials and reboots, so what I don't understand is why those earlier reboots didn't affect the update; however, since I was done with O365, I clicked on "Restart Now" and lappy was restarted once more.

What I didn't expect is that after Windows did its thing (much more than an expected update to IE) when I opened Word again, there was no error in O365 2016!

You tell me . . . cuz I haven't a clue!

 

My 64-bit version is 16.0.4229.1029

 

Mine just updated to 16.0.4229.1031. *Smile

 

I clicked on Update Options and then clicked on Update Now. It updated for me.

However, it might be that since I was on the Technical Preview, I'll always be one or two builds ahead of "public".

I think that at some point, we'll be asked to regroup and test some stuff. Or not. Who knows?

 

OMG, I have the Prof Plus version. My build is 16.0.4266.1003.
When I click on the Update Options, it returns with 'Up to date!'

Update: Posted too quick! Just realized the third number is 4266 instead 4229. LOL

 

I think that's the number from your MSDN copy.

 

Windows 10 Build 10565 released Monday, October 12 seems to have fixed the problem listed above!

I have installed Office 365 2016 ProPlus on Lappy 15 with Build 10565 and didn't have a problem at all. I've just finished installing Office 365 2016 ProPlus on Lappy 17 and it worked like clockwork.

 

I downloaded the click to run, and ran it again. I ended up with the same build as snoopy51. It's the RTM build number, not MSDN.

 

Hi Dude:

Are you running O365 2013 or O365 2016? And are you sure it's not 4229.1030? It seems that new builds are coming out every few days now. I'm up to 4229.1033 now. Which is the current Build for those of us who were on the Technical Preview.

I think Snoopy really wound up with 4229 rather than 4266.

 

I'm running 0365 personal, here is a screen shot





Office build numbers. | Build Numbers

 

Wow, Dude! That's wild, to say the least.

It doesn't tell me whether it's 2013 or 2016, so let me ask:

When you downloaded/installed, did you scroll down to the bottom of the page and see "Install Office with the new 2016 Apps" or something like that?

 

It tells you the version number starting with 16 16.0.4226.1003 I don't think you can get 0365 2013 version personal or home, its an up to date thing. It may be different with the Business side, I don't know.

 

My Home Premium subscription expired August 31, so the only one I have now is O365 2016 ProPlus. When I go to the portal where my account is and click on Install, I'm taken to the page where the first "Install" is for O365 2013 and if I scroll down, I see "Install Office with the new 2016 Apps" or something like that phrase. So I click on that and I get 4229.1033.

For some reason, I'm thinking that the same should hold true for Personal and Home Premium because we had Home users, Personal users and Business users. Every update we got was the exact same version number whether it was Home, Personal or Business.

4266.1003 seems to me to be O365 2013, but I could be wrong. It's baffling to say the least.

 

Wynona:

My version is the stand alone Office Prof Plus 2016.

 

Oh, good Grief!

Lookit This! I now have version 16.0.6001.1033! It's no longer 4229!






Looks like they're changing the version numbers on us.