Windows 11 Pro With Office 2024 Pro Plus

Overview

What this release is

This image saves the two longest steps of setting up a working machine. Windows 11 Pro installs from it as normal, and when the desktop appears for the first time the Office suite is already there, already licensed, and ready to open a document. There is no second installation, no download, and no configuration pass afterwards.

The hardware requirement checks that block Windows 11 on perfectly capable machines have been removed from the image. The security module requirement, the boot mode check, the processor generation list, and the memory floor are all bypassed during setup, so hardware that Microsoft decided was too old installs and runs without the workarounds normally needed at the setup screen.

The Windows side is the standard Pro edition with nothing removed from it. Every feature, every component, and every servicing path is intact, which means updates install normally and the machine behaves like any other Pro installation. The image is multilingual, with the language chosen on the first setup screen rather than requiring a separate download.

The Office side is the complete Professional Plus configuration: the word processor, the spreadsheet, the presentation application, the mail client, the database, the publishing tool, and the note taking application. Its licensing is applied through the same mechanism that handles the operating system, so both are settled by the time you reach the desktop.

The preconfiguration extends to a small set of sensible defaults. The consumer application suggestions are off, the advertising identifier is disabled, the lock screen promotional content is turned off, and the initial telemetry level is set to its minimum. Everything remains changeable afterwards in the normal settings.

Feature set

What you get

Changes in this build

What changed

• Rebuilt on the current feature update servicing baseline
• Cumulative updates integrated so the first update pass after installation is much shorter
• Office component set refreshed to the current build
• Improved driver coverage for recent storage controllers, which removes the missing disk problem at setup
• Fixed the setup stall that occurred on some systems when the hardware check bypass was applied

Installation

How to install it

1. Write the image to an eight gigabyte or larger drive with a tool that handles the file size properly.
2. Boot from the drive. Set your firmware to boot from it first if the machine ignores it.
3. Choose Custom installation and select the target partition. An upgrade in place will not apply the bypasses.
4. Skip the network step during setup if you want a local account rather than an online one.
5. Let the first boot finish completely before opening anything. The licensing and configuration passes run during it.

Hardware

System requirements

Package

Release information

Questions

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