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365 Business Activation on RDS VM

Installing o365 on RDS - currently using o365 business licenses and need to install office 365 on rds which is running as a virtual machine.  its been installed using odt > setup.exe /install /configure.xml

XML File below:

<Configuration ID="44dcfaf3-85db-4ef7-ae17-1f61a5777bf3">
  <Add OfficeClientEdition="32" Channel="Broad" ForceUpgrade="TRUE">
    <Product ID="O365BusinessRetail">
      <Language ID="MatchOS" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Groove" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Lync" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="OneDrive" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="OneNote" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Publisher" />
      <ExcludeApp ID="Teams" />
    </Product>
  </Add>
<Display Level="None" AcceptEULA="True" />  
<Property Name="SharedComputerLicensing" Value="1" />
  <Property Name="PinIconsToTaskbar" Value="TRUE" />
  <Property Name="SCLCacheOverride" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="AUTOACTIVATE" Value="0" />
  <Property Name="FORCEAPPSHUTDOWN" Value="FALSE" />
  <Property Name="DeviceBasedLicensing" Value="0" />
  <Updates Enabled="TRUE" />
  <RemoveMSI />
  <AppSettings>
    <User Key="software\microsoft\office\16.0\excel\options" Name="defaultformat" Value="51" Type="REG_DWORD" App="excel16" Id="L_SaveExcelfilesas" />
    <User Key="software\microsoft\office\16.0\powerpoint\options" Name="defaultformat" Value="27" Type="REG_DWORD" App="ppt16" Id="L_SavePowerPointfilesas" />
    <User Key="software\microsoft\office\16.0\word\options" Name="defaultformat" Value="" Type="REG_SZ" App="word16" Id="L_SaveWordfilesas" />
  </AppSettings>
</Configuration>

When I launch an app word for example and attempt to sign in i get a message that says: Account Issue - the products we found in your account cannot be used to activate office in shared computer scenarios. Error Code: 0x80004005

I have verified that Shared Computer activation was enabled OK here:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/DeployOffice/troubleshoot-issues-with-shared-computer-activation-for-office-365-proplus#Enabled

If i go to File > Account > About Word (or whatever the name of the app is). On the second line from the top, underneath the MSO version number, you should see Shared Computer Activation and also this key exisits: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\ClickToRun\Configuration. There should be a value for SharedComputerLicensing with a setting of 1.

According to this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/DeployOffice/overview-of-shared-computer-activation-for-office-365-proplus 365 business is available for activation on shared computers

Any ideas experts?

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Spot on, thank you