Visio and Project in particular have a rather unique activation scenario: the provided activation key for lab use is actually a retail key but a special one that has no activation limit. Imagine Premium does not license the Office suite, with the exception of Visio and Project. The institution likely has a Microsoft Imagine Premium (formerly DreamSpark Premium, formerly MSDN Academic Alliance) subscription. The institution may or may not have an Office 365 Education plan it’s not relevant here. I am going to describe the licensing and deployment scenario commonly found in an education institution as it relates to computer labs first.
There is no MSI-based installer or volume license key available to Imagine Premium subscribers for Visio and Project 2016.We need to use MSI-based installers and volume license keys to activate Office products for the computer (as opposed to the user).
TL DR The conundrum that education lab administrators are presented with is this: Start with this Microsoft blog entry, which contains links to additional valuable content about DBA. UPDATE: July 2018: I still have not found the time to write up how to use Device-Based Activation, but since then, several others have beat me to the punch. I am preparing a new blog post to detail how this works.
UPDATE: May 2017: There is a solution that is available to higher education institutions (only) and it is called Device-Based Activation (DBA). I am calling on Microsoft to address the issue with a real fix. I am proposing two workarounds that could help and one I’ve included just for completeness. This blog post details the common licensing and deployment practices for higher education labs and the particular conundrum it causes with Office 2016 and Visio/Project 2016. While the particular scenario I am describing here is likely common only at educational institutions, for those affected, it is a major showstopper.
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