Windows 11 Professional with Office 2021 Professional Plus

About Windows 11 Professional with Office 2021 Professional Plus

This image does the two jobs that follow every machine rebuild in a single pass. The desktop system installs, and the full office suite installs behind it without a second transfer, a second stick or a second setup routine. On a bench rebuilding several machines a week that removes an entire step from the process and a considerable amount of waiting.

The system half is the 24H2 Professional release with the setup hardware check removed, so machines without a TPM 2.0 module or with a processor outside the supported list install and run normally. The Professional edition carries drive encryption, Group Policy, Remote Desktop hosting, virtualisation and domain join, which the Home edition does not.

The suite half is the 2021 perpetual Professional Plus set: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher and OneNote. Being perpetual it installs once and stays put with no entitlement machinery, and the 2021 generation carries the dynamic array engine in the spreadsheet application, which is the practical reason to prefer it over the older perpetual releases.

Setup keeps the choices in the right order. Interface language first, then the clean install or upgrade decision, then the partition, then whether the suite should be installed and in which architecture. Skipping the suite entirely leaves a plain system image, so the same stick serves both purposes without carrying a second file.

What is included in this build

• System and office suite installed from one image in a single pass
• Setup hardware check bypassed, so no TPM 2.0 module is required
• Professional edition with drive encryption, Group Policy and domain join
• Office 2021 Professional Plus including Access and Publisher
• Dynamic arrays and the newer lookup functions in the spreadsheet application
• Multilingual x64 image with twelve interface languages in one file
• Suite installation can be skipped for a plain system image
• Clean install or in-place upgrade paths both offered by setup

Changed in version 24H2 build 26100

• Updated to the 24H2 servicing baseline
• Hardware check bypass reworked for the current setup binary
• Suite component rolled forward to the latest servicing update
• Additional storage controller drivers for recent NVMe hardware
• Reduced image size after component store cleanup

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 everything on the target machine, 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. Boot from the stick using the firmware boot menu.
4. Choose the language, then a clean install onto the wiped system partition, then whether to include the suite.
5. Install chipset, graphics and network drivers from the hardware vendor after the first boot.

System requirements and file details

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