I am paying to use my DSVM, I have no issues using PowerBI and R... but when I try using excel I get this msg: How is this possible? I am inside the vm, inside azure!!

@Tim Apologies for the delay in response and all the inconvenience caused because of the issue. Can you check if you have activate shared computer usage of O365 with this DSVM. You can look at the details of shared computer activation for O365 here . Also you can check which OS you are using if it is Windows or Linux since as per this article Organize & present results for Microsoft Office ProPlus with shared activation: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint are not available for Ubuntu. This guide might be helpful as well to troubleshoot your issue. Hope it helps!!! Please 'Accept as answer' if it helped, so that it can help others in the community looking for help on similar topics

Using DSVM I see UNLICENSED PRODUCT, how come?

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prmanhas-MSFT 17,891 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-12T06:09:29.39+00:00

@Tim Apologies for the delay in response and all the inconvenience caused because of the issue.

Can you check if you have activate shared computer usage of O365 with this DSVM. You can look at the details of shared computer activation for O365 here.

Also you can check which OS you are using if it is Windows or Linux since as per this article Organize & present results for Microsoft Office ProPlus with shared activation: Excel, Word, and PowerPoint are not available for Ubuntu.

This guide might be helpful as well to troubleshoot your issue.

Hope it helps!!!

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Tim 21 Reputation points

2020-11-12T15:23:37.33+00:00

Hi @prmanhas-MSFT

Why should I check? The vm is advertised as "DSVMs are Azure Virtual Machine images, pre-installed, configured and tested with several popular tools that are commonly used for data analytics, machine learning and AI training"

I just want to use excel but it has Licensing issues, and as you can see is not ubuntu:

prmanhas-MSFT 17,891 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-12T15:40:07.82+00:00

@Tim Thank you for the clarity!!!

I was asking you to check the activation part since as per troubleshooting guide here This error means that you don't have an Office 365 (or Microsoft 365) plan that includes Microsoft 365 Apps and that supports shared computer activation. Therefore, you can't use shared computer activation.

Yes you are completely right DSVMs are Azure Virtual Machine images, pre-installed, configured and tested with several popular tools that are commonly used for data analytics, machine learning and AI training so let me reach out to our internal team and check their inputs on same.

Will keep you posted on thread once I have an update :)

Thanks.

Tim 21 Reputation points

2020-11-12T19:51:16.197+00:00

I don't understand, why should I perform any checks... I would do it if I have paid for a regular vm , I paid for the DSVM, which has everything pre-installed and configured... as of now I can only use Powerbi, both Excel and VS show licencing issues... I look forward to your answer.

prmanhas-MSFT 17,891 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-20T15:30:07.673+00:00

@Tim Thank you for your patience over the matter.

I had discussion with our team internally and below is their response:

The machine comes pre installed with Office, but it requires BYOL (bring your own license) M365 license. Office will not work fully without activating your M365 license. Customer needs to have an existing license that they activate to use Excel.

https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/microsoft-dsvm.dsvm-win-2019?tab=Overview

As mentioned in article: Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus BYOL - Shared Computer Activation

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prmanhas-MSFT 17,891 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-11-24T08:27:55.38+00:00

@Tim Any update on the issue?

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