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Installing office 365 on windows 7

Hello, please help, I just noticed that I can't activate my office 365 for which I have subscription, so I tried uninstalling it and installing it again. I get an error message and it's not installing. I have windows 7 and maybe it's because my OS no longer supports it? Is there any way of getting office 365 installed on windows 7 without updating the actual OS? I would really appreciate it.

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Hello oleg,

I'm Diane, an Office Apps & Services MVP specializing in Outlook, and I’m happy to help you today.

You need an older version of Office 365 - the current versions do not install on Windows 7. The version you need is 1912 (Build 12325.20298) - I don't know if it will be offered to you if you log into your account and download it. But you do need to have TLS1.2 enabled first.

Make sure all Windows updates are installed then set some registry keys. Use the fix it at https://support.microsoft.com/help/3140245/upda... to set the keys for you. You need to do this after the update is installed.
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Diane Poremsky
M365 MVP, specializing in Outlook, Exchange, and Microsoft 365 apps.

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Officially 365 is not supported on Win 7 because Win 7 is no longer supported by MS.

But in this article MS says you can still run 365 on Win 7 and they will still provide 365 updates

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/endofsupport/windows-7-support 

<snip>

How to manage Microsoft 365 Apps on Windows 7 after January 2020

Version 2002 is the last version of Microsoft 365 Apps that you can install on devices running Windows 7. Version 2002 is available in Current Channel, Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel (Preview), and Semi-Annual Enterprise Channel.

This means that if you want to continue to deploy and update Microsoft 365 Apps on devices that are running Windows 7, you need to use Version 2002. If you try to install a newer version of Microsoft 365 Apps, such as Version 2005, on a device running Windows 7, you'll receive an error message.

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So that is a slightly newer version of 365 than Dianne cited.

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The article says you have to use the Deployment toolkit to download and install the older version. In theory, after you get the old version installed you should/may be able to update it to current versions ... Here are some articles about the toolkit

Office Deployment Tool

You still can do "custom" installs", explicitly including or excluding elements of the Office bundle using a Business oriented tool called the "Office Deployment Tool". It is intended for Business administrators, but it does secretly support consumer Office bundles. It's tricky, intended for experienced administrators, not users, so it requires learning some XML coding. Here are some links to the tool, you'll have to do more research to use it:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=49117 
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https://config.office.com/ 
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/overview-office-deployment-tool
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https://www.trustedtechteam.com/pages/office-deployment-tool-guide
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Excluding Office apps typically saves between 200-500MB per app. Yes, that can be significant on the relatively small, 20-64GB SSDs, that were typically used on retail devices up to 2019-2020. On devices with larger SSDs it’s not worth the effort. Since Windoze now uses 27GB for it's installation and Office uses around 4-5GB, that doesn't leave space for anything else.
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Diane,

I have the same question on installing 365 on Win7.

Can I get 1912 (Build 12325.20298)  from Microsoft? And what is TLS1.2?

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TLS 1.2 is an update to an existing Internet security protocol that Windows uses.

This page tells how to use the 'deployment tool' to download an earlier version of Office. I don't know if MS will "allow" you to go that far back

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At present O365 does not support on Windows 7,

But downloading the old version of office 365 build no 16.0.12325.20298 using the office deployment tool is possible and I downloading it. But downloading data from the Microsoft office server is slow because of getting old versions.

I am working as a Mathematics lecturer in a PU college.
Windows11_Pro_64bit_23H2_buildno_22631.3672P_MS.office365_C2R_2405_v17628.20110_Intel_i5_13500_Nvidia3060_12GB_GDDR6_RAM_32GB_5600_Storage 6TB.

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Is Office 2016 compatible with Windows 7?

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Office 2016 does not support on windows 7.

See below site

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/microsoft-365-and-office-resources#coreui-heading-38bzjvj

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Windows11_Pro_64bit_23H2_buildno_22631.3672P_MS.office365_C2R_2405_v17628.20110_Intel_i5_13500_Nvidia3060_12GB_GDDR6_RAM_32GB_5600_Storage 6TB.

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Is Office 2016 compatible with Windows 7?

Mostly

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/windows-7-end-of-support-and-office-78f20fab-b57b-44d7-8368-06a8493f3cb9#ID0EBDF=Other_Office_versions 

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The following table shows the supported versions of Office and Windows operating system.

Windows OS

Office 2013

Office 2016

Office 2019

Office LTSC and Office 2021

Windows 7

Supported (with exceptions*)

Supported (with exceptions*)

N/A

N/A

Windows 8.1

Supported

Supported

N/A

N/A

Windows 10

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

Windows 11

Supported

Supported

Supported

Supported

*These versions of Office will continue to be supported so long as they are within the Microsoft Lifecycle Policy. The exception to this is if you’re running Office on Windows 7 and we determine your issue is caused or related to Windows 7, and not an issue with Office.

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You MAY still be able to free upgrade Win7 to Win10. Do some research, ie:

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Can you send me xml to paste with last verision office 365 avaiable to windows7?

When i enter 16.0.12325.20298 and run setup from cmd i see "program office not working" error...

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Sorry old version not downloading from internet, ODT downloads new versions only

<Configuration>

<Add SourcePath="C:\C2RO365old\"

OfficeClientEdition="64"

Channel="Current"

Version="16.12430.20288" >

<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">

<Language ID="en-us" />

</Product>

</Add>

</Configuration>

I tried with 16.12257.196

I am working as a Mathematics lecturer in a PU college.
Windows11_Pro_64bit_23H2_buildno_22631.3672P_MS.office365_C2R_2405_v17628.20110_Intel_i5_13500_Nvidia3060_12GB_GDDR6_RAM_32GB_5600_Storage 6TB.

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