Windows 11 Pro with Office 2019 Professional Plus

About Windows 11 Pro with Office 2019 Professional Plus

The single largest obstacle to putting the current desktop release on an otherwise capable machine is the firmware module check, which refuses hardware that runs everything else without complaint. This image has that check lifted, so a workstation with a perfectly good processor and plenty of memory installs and runs normally instead of being turned away at the first setup screen.

The system half is the Professional edition on a current servicing build, with the full Professional feature set: BitLocker, Group Policy, domain join, Hyper-V and Remote Desktop hosting. The servicing stack is folded into the image, so the first update pass after installation is short rather than an afternoon of restarts before the machine is usable.

The office half is the Professional Plus application set, which means Access and Publisher are present alongside Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook. It is the perpetual 2019 generation rather than the subscription track, so nothing checks entitlement after setup and the suite behaves identically a year later. One image, one pass, and the machine is working.

Ten interface languages ship in the same file and are chosen at the first boot screen, covering both the system and the suite. The image writes to a USB stick with any standard imaging tool and offers a clean install onto a wiped partition or an in-place upgrade that keeps files and applications where they are.

What is included in this build

• Current desktop release with the firmware module requirement lifted
• Professional edition with BitLocker, Group Policy, domain join and Hyper-V
• Office 2019 Professional Plus set including Access and Publisher
• Servicing stack integrated so the first update pass is short
• Ten interface languages covering both the system and the suite
• Clean install and in-place upgrade paths both offered by setup
• Writes to USB with any standard imaging tool
• Perpetual office generation with no entitlement checks after setup

Changed in version 24H2 build 26100 with Office 16.0.10417

• Latest cumulative servicing update folded into the system image
• Refreshed office component updates in the bundled suite
• Updated storage and network drivers for current hardware
• Improved setup behaviour on machines without a firmware module present
• Reduced image size after a component store cleanup pass

Installation walkthrough

These steps assume a clean machine. If a previous release of the same application is present, deal with that first, since an overlapping install is the most common cause of a setup that stops halfway.

1. Back up the target machine completely, since a clean install erases the system partition.
2. Write the image to a USB stick of 16 GB or larger with a standard imaging tool.
3. Set the firmware to boot from removable media and disable secure boot if setup refuses to start.
4. Choose the interface language, then pick a clean install onto the wiped system partition.
5. Install chipset, graphics and network drivers from the hardware vendor after the first boot.

System requirements and file details

Frequently asked about this title