Windows 10 Pro With Office 2019

Overview

What this release is

This is the combined image that people reach for when they are rebuilding a machine from nothing and do not want to spend the evening running two separate installers. Windows 10 Professional goes down first, then the Office 2019 Professional Plus suite is applied from within the same image, and both are in a licensed state by the time the desktop appears for the first time.

The Windows half is the 22H2 servicing branch, which is the final feature level for Windows 10 and the one that receives the longest support runway. Nothing has been stripped out of it. Hyper-V, BitLocker, Remote Desktop host, group policy, and the full Professional feature list are all present, so the image behaves exactly like a retail install once it is on the disk.

The Office half installs Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher, and OneNote in the volume configuration. The click to run channel has been pinned so the suite does not quietly upgrade itself into a different version behind your back, and the first run telemetry prompts have been answered in advance.

The setup routine itself has been left almost untouched, which matters more than it sounds. Custom partition layouts work, the recovery environment is intact, and the image can be used for a repair install over an existing system without wiping user data. The only real change is that the account creation step no longer insists on a network connection.

Both direct mirrors and a torrent magnet are listed because the image is large enough that a single stalled direct connection is genuinely annoying. The torrent is the more reliable option on a slow line, since it resumes cleanly after a disconnect.

Feature set

What you get

Changes in this build

What changed

• Rebuilt on the current 22H2 servicing baseline with cumulative updates folded in
• Office component updated to the latest volume build available for the 2019 suite
• Setup no longer forces a network connection at the account creation screen
• Added storage and chipset drivers for recent Intel and AMD platforms so setup sees NVMe disks
• Fixed the case where the Office activation state reset after the first cumulative update

Installation

How to install it

1. Write the image to a USB stick of 8 GB or larger with a tool that supports GPT and UEFI. A plain file copy will not produce a bootable stick.
2. Boot from the stick and choose Custom rather than Upgrade if you want a clean partition layout.
3. Leave the machine offline through the whole of setup. It shortens the process considerably and avoids the account requirement.
4. Let the desktop settle for a few minutes after first boot. The Office component finishes configuring itself in the background.
5. Check the activation state in system settings before installing anything else, so you know the baseline is good.

Hardware

System requirements

Package

Release information

Questions

Before you start