Both IDs allowed permit both enterprise accounts (e.g., any account in your Office 365 tenant, whether a synced or cloud account) and Microsoft accounts (e.g., a personal account) to sign in to Office.However, a selection of ‘None Allowed,’ which our example policy was set to, will block all Office activations and signing in, causing the error in the post title. Which option you choose depends on the needs of your business. The Block signing into Office has four options. To resolve this issue, right-click on the group policy in question and select Edit from the context menu.įrom the Group Policy Management Editor expand User Configuration (Enabled) > Policies > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous.įrom the right-hand pane, double-click on Block signing into Office. Resolving ‘This feature has been disabled by your administrator.’ You can get this by running GPRESULT from a command prompt on your impacted user’s computer. Note: If you do not see this setting, I recommend checking all group policies currently applied to the impacted user. If you see a setting named Block signing into Office that is Enabled, this is the culprit. Expand User Configuration (Enabled) > Policies > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Office 2016 > Miscellaneous. Select your policy that is managing the Office suite and click the Settings tab. From the GPMC, expand your domain name (e.g., skaro.local) and Group Policy Objects. To check this, open Group Policy Management Console (GPMC). This error is likely a result of a group policy. This feature has been disabled by your administrator. When trying to activate (or sign in to) Microsoft Office with your Office 365 enterprise credentials, you may receive the following error.

Office activator