The solution to activation error “We’re sorry something went wrong and we can’t do this for you right now. Please try again later. (0xC004F017 )” in Office 2013 is very easy to correct but far from obvious.
What you need to do is:
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9 Comments
Zyl · January 13, 2016 at 3:17 pm
I have to take a slightly different route.
1. Appwiz.cpl
2. locate the Project Install
3. right click and change install
4. Select Enter Product Key
5. Profit!
Cleese · October 15, 2017 at 9:04 am
Thank you!!
Tapiwa · December 12, 2013 at 4:46 am
Did not work for me as well
Thanks still Ross
satyasambitrath · October 3, 2013 at 8:43 am
Thanks Ross its work, you give solution more quickly than Microsoft support.
oren · August 17, 2013 at 7:02 am
That did not work for me too 🙁
Ian Matthews · August 19, 2013 at 10:34 pm
I just had another one of these that this solution did work for. I am sorry to hear yours was apparently a different issue?
Ross · May 16, 2013 at 11:56 am
Or you could just right-click on any of the Office components (e.g., Excel, Outlook, Word, etc.) and select “Run as Administrator.” The activation should work after that.
Ian Matthews · May 19, 2013 at 4:40 pm
Hi rbrasseau 🙂
That did not work for me… but others can try and see if it works for them.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Sambo · September 13, 2013 at 3:18 am
That worked great, thanks Ross!