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Office 2016 Network Shortcuts Save Issue

This is a quick post to help sysadmins facing save issues with Microsoft Office 2016 – specifically the action of saving to the Documents folder and being redirected to Network Shortcuts instead. This issue may be present in Office 2013 too but it’s not what I have deployed in my environment so cannot say for sure if the same symptoms occur on 2013.

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Office 2016 KMS Activation Setup

In this brief article I will go through the steps to activate your Office 2016 KMS key.

My set-up is as follows:

  • Server 2012 R2 KMS server (I believe you require Server 2008 R2 onwards for this to work but I may be wrong)
  • Office Professional Plus KMS Key from Microsoft VLSC

Thankfully it’s pretty straight forward so here goes…