Office Activation Status

Summary

Generates an alert for any unlicensed Office products on the endpoint.

Monitor

1. Navigate to Endpoints > Alerts > Monitors
   

2. Click the Create Monitor button.
   

3. This screen will appear.
   

4. Name: Office Activation Status
   Description: Generates an alert for any unlicensed Office products on the endpoint
   Type: Script
   Family: Desktop Operating System
   Severity: Others
   

5. The Conditions tab will start looking like this:
   

6. Set the Repeat every to 24 Hours:
   

7. Disable the Ticket Resolution section by clicking the Automatically resolve button.
   

8. Paste this PowerShell script in the Script box.

   $ErrorActionPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
   #region Setup - Variables
   $ProjectName = 'Get-OfficeActivationStatus'
   [Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [enum]::ToObject([Net.SecurityProtocolType], 3072)
   $BaseURL = 'https://file.provaltech.com/repo'
   $PS1URL = "$BaseURL/script/$ProjectName.ps1"
   $WorkingDirectory = "C:\ProgramData\_automation\script\$ProjectName"
   $PS1Path = "$WorkingDirectory\$ProjectName.ps1"
   $Workingpath = $WorkingDirectory
   $LogPath = "$WorkingDirectory\$ProjectName-log.txt"
   $ErrorLogPath = "$WorkingDirectory\$ProjectName-Error.txt"
   #endregion
   #region Setup - Folder Structure
   New-Item -Path $WorkingDirectory -ItemType Directory -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | Out-Null
   $response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri $PS1URL -UseBasicParsing
   if (($response.StatusCode -ne 200) -and (!(Test-Path -Path $PS1Path))) {
      throw "No pre-downloaded script exists and the script '$PS1URL' failed to download. Exiting."
   } elseif ($response.StatusCode -eq 200) {
      Remove-Item -Path $PS1Path -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
      [System.IO.File]::WriteAllLines($PS1Path, $response.Content)
   }
   if (!(Test-Path -Path $PS1Path)) {
      throw 'An error occurred and the script was unable to be downloaded. Exiting.'
   }
   #endregion
   #region Execution
   $licenseInfo = & $PS1Path
   return $licenseInfo.LicenseStatus

   

9. Set Unlicensed, Non_Genuine_Grace_Period, and Out_Of_Tolerance_Grace_Period to the Script Output box.
   

10. Enable the Escalate ticket on script failure option.
    

11. Select the required client or group to target from the Select Targets button.
    
    

12. 

13. Click the Save button to save the monitor set.
    

Changelog

2025-04-10

• Initial version of the document