Logging into Office 2016 with an Office 365 School Account?

[DigiBen]

So I am trying to show the teachers all the wonderful things about Office 365...... yup...... and I cant even login to Office 2016 products with an Office 365 account?!?

 

Has anyone had this problem? Zero errors, it just doesnt do anything. Asif it was accepted as the credentials, but just didnt sign in?

[ModeratelyGruntled]

Check the registry hive below and change the value of SignInOptions.

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\SignIn

 

 

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/jj715259.aspx

[DigiBen]

Still no luck sadly.

 

Added HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\SignIn\SignInOptions as a DWORD, and set it to 0. But it had no effect.

 

Still getting the "The background task activation is spurious" before I even type anything in. But I am not sure if this is relevant

[win]

Works here with 2016 on a few test machines. Double check your licenses are issued correctly

[synaesthesia]

Anyone else getting this background task activation is spurious message? Microsoft's latest remedy is still "click OK and ignore it", but for one of my users who is getting it constantly is getting more than annoying, very understandably! Everything is updated, windows 10 edu, office 2016 connected to the academy's Office 365. Tried all sorts with no luck

[Sput]

We get this, and found that if you use a GPO to disable sign in to office it removes the spurious error, however we use onenote as a exercise book for Computer Sci, and it also stopped the OneNote 2016 Desktop application from working as that requires being signed into office.

 

James

[JasonNVSD]

Added HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\SignIn\SignInOptions as a DWORD, and set it to 0. But it had no effect.

The key ModeratelyGruntled posted is for 2013. If you're deploying 2016, you would need to change 15.0 to 16.0.

[MatthewL]

Does you firewall allow your computers to communicate to be able to sign into Office 365?

[JasonNVSD]

Check the registry hive below and change the value of SignInOptions.

 

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\SignIn

 

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/jj715259.aspx

It's not mentioned in the Technet article, but there's an equivalent to this in the Office Customization Tool, but it is was very hard to find: Features > Modify user settings > Microsoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous > Block signing into Office.

 

This policy setting controls whether users can provide credentials to Office using either their Microsoft Account or the user ID assigned by your organization for accessing Office 365.

If you enable this policy setting, you can specify one of the following options:

 

- If you select "Both IDs allowed", users can sign in and access Office content by using either ID

- If you select "Microsoft Account only", users can sign in only by using their Microsoft Account.

- If you select "Organization only", users can sign in only by using the user ID assigned by your organization for accessing Office 365.

- If you select "None allowed", users cannot sign in by using either ID.

 

If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, users can sign in by using either ID.

 

Note: This policy does not apply to licensing. A user can license their product using any applicable ID if they have a valid license associated with that account. Providing credentials for licensing purposes when that ID type has been disabled, however, will not affect the signed in state of Office.

[3s-gtech]

I recently changed this GP setting (block signing into Office) as our O365 is now up. Changing this setting was enough for it to work - we get a certificate revocation warning but that can be acknowledged. We also had to change another setting (Allow Office to connect to the internet) for it to work. Worth monitoring your filtering to see if a URL is being caught too.