Step by step How to Install and activate Office 2019 for FREE | legally using Volume license
Installing Office 2019 without a product key
After the download process is complete, you will get an image file. Just open it then run the setup file to install Office 2019 on your PC.
If your Office is got from Microsoft, this step is required. On the contrary, if you install Office from a Volume ISO file, this is optional so just skip it if you want.
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How to download and Install Office 2019 from Microsoft homepage?
If you have an Office 365 subscription, your Office will be upgraded to the latest version automatically without doing anything. However, if you are using Office 2016 or earlier versions, to make sure that Office 2019 will work normally, please uninstall your old version of Office completely before starting a new installation.
After the download process is complete, you will get an image file. Just open it then run the setup file to install Office 2019 on your PC.
Activating Office 2019 using KMS license key
Method 1: Running commands one by one manually
Time needed: 1 minute.Manually activate your Office with legal KMS product key.
Open command prompt in administrator mode.
First, you need to open command prompt with admin rights, then follow the instruction below step by step. Just copy/paste the commands and do not forget to hit Enter in order to execute them.
Open location of the Office installed on your PC
cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16
cd /d %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16
If you install your Office in the ProgramFiles folder, the path will be
“%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16” or “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16”
It depends on the architecture of the Windows OS you are using. If you are not sure of this issue, don’t worry, just run both of the commands above. One of them will be not executed and an error message will be printed on the screen.
Convert your retail license to volume one
for /f %x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%x"
If your Office is got from Microsoft, this step is required. On the contrary, if you install Office from a Volume ISO file, this is optional so just skip it if you want.
Activate your Office using KMS client key
Make sure your PC is connected to the internet, then run the following command.
cscript ospp.vbs /setprt:1688
cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:6MWKP >nul
cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP
cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:kms8.msguides.com
cscript ospp.vbs /act
Here is all the text you will get in the command prompt window.
C:\Windows\system32>cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16 C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cd /d %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16 The system cannot find the path specified. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>for /f %x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%x" C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE-ppd.xrm-ms" Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2019vl_kms_client_ae-ppd.xrm-ms Office license installed successfully. ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE-ul-oob.xrm-ms" Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2019vl_kms_client_ae-ul-oob.xrm-ms Office license installed successfully. ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE-ul.xrm-ms" Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2019vl_kms_client_ae-ul.xrm-ms Office license installed successfully. ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-pl.xrm-ms" Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2019vl_mak_ae-pl.xrm-ms Office license installed successfully. ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-ppd.xrm-ms" Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2019vl_mak_ae-ppd.xrm-ms Office license installed successfully. ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-ul-oob.xrm-ms" Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2019vl_mak_ae-ul-oob.xrm-ms Office license installed successfully. ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-ul-phn.xrm-ms" Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Installing Office license: ..\root\licenses16\proplus2019vl_mak_ae-ul-phn.xrm-ms Office license installed successfully. ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /setprt:1688 Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Successfully applied setting. ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:6MWKP >nul C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:kms8.msguides.com Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Successfully applied setting. ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /act Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.812 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ---Processing-------------------------- Installed product key detected - attempting to activate the following product: SKU ID: 85dd8b5f-eaa4-4af3-a628-cce9e77c9a03 LICENSE NAME: Office 19, Office19ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE edition LICENSE DESCRIPTION: Office 19, VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel Last 5 characters of installed product key: 6MWKP ---Exiting----------------------------- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office16>
Right now the Office is activated successfully.
Windows Download and Installation Instructions for Office 2019
Beginning with Office 2019, all Office products for Windows that are available through Volume Licensing use Click-to-Run technology instead of the traditional Windows Installer technology. To deploy volume licensed versions of Office 2019 products for users in your organization, you'll use the Office Deployment Tool (ODT).
You'll need a broadband Internet connection with download speeds of at least 20 Mbps to download Office 2019 products. Note that Office 2019 products require Windows 10 and will not run on older versions of Windows.
Step One: Register at the VLSC and Accept Your Software Agreement
If you haven't already, register at the VLSC and accept your software license agreement for the Office 2019 products you requested by completing only steps one and two in our VLSC quick-start guide.
Step Two: Get Your Office 2019 Product Key from the VLSC
- Sign in to the VLSC.
- Select the Downloads and Keys tab.
- Find your Office 2019 product in the list and click its Key link.
- In the table beneath the name of the product, find your product key in the column labeled Key. The Type column for this key should say MAK, not KMS.
- Office suites have separate setup keys for online functionality like web apps. These keys are not the same as the MAK product keys and cannot be used for volume activation of desktop products.
- Office suites have separate setup keys for online functionality like web apps. These keys are not the same as the MAK product keys and cannot be used for volume activation of desktop products.
- Copy the product's individual key from this table and paste it into a program like Notepad or click Export all keys: CSV just above the list of products to download a list of keys in comma-separated-values format (which can be opened with Excel). This list contains all Volume License keys associated with agreements in your VLSC profile.
Step Three: Download the Office Deployment Tool (ODT)
- Download the Office Deployment Tool from Microsoft.
- When the download is finished, open it, check the box to accept the Microsoft license terms, and click Continue.
- You will be asked to choose a folder to store the extracted setup files. Navigate to the root level of your computer's hard drive (C:) and click Make New Folder. Then, name the folder "OfficeSetup" and continue with the extraction process. Note that these instructions won't work if you choose a different folder name or location.
- When you are finished, your new "OfficeSetup" folder should have a file named "setup" and some sample "configuration" files. Delete the configuration files. You only need to keep the setup file.
Step Four: Download and Prepare the Configuration File
Download the configuration file that you need from the table below by right-clicking the link for the file you need, selecting Save link as…, and saving the file to the "OfficeSetup" folder you created. Don't download more than one of these files to that folder at a time. If you need to install more than one type of Office product, you'll have the opportunity to do so later.
Next, follow the instructions below to add the product key that you obtained from the VLSC in step two to the configuration file.
- Right-click the configuration file and select Edit to open the file in Notepad.
- Look for the following string of text in the configuration file:
- PIDKEY="#####-#####-#####-#####-#####"
- PIDKEY="#####-#####-#####-#####-#####"
- In this string, replace #####-#####-#####-#####-##### with your MAK client activation key by copying and pasting the key from wherever you saved it. You should leave the quotation marks before and after the key.
- Save the file and close it.
- Then, right-click the configuration file, select Rename, and change the filename to be "configuration".
- If the configuration file you downloaded has a name that ends with ".xml", that means your installation of Windows has been set to display file extensions. If this is the case, make sure to keep ".xml" in your filename by renaming it as "configuration.xml" instead of "configuration".
If you need additional customization for your deployment and have IT experience, you can use Microsoft's Office Customization Tool to create your own configuration files.
Step Five: Download and Install Your Product
Note that all earlier versions of Office will be uninstalled when you install Office 2019 products, so be sure to save and quit any Office applications that are running.
- Navigate to your "OfficeSetup" folder in File Explorer.
- You'll need to perform the next steps using the Command Prompt, which is a text-based command-line interface that runs within Windows.
To open the Command Prompt- Click the address bar in the File Explorer window that you opened.
- With the address bar selected, type
cmd
and press Enter.
- Click the address bar in the File Explorer window that you opened.
- Type the following into the Command Prompt that you opened.
setup /download configuration.xml
- When the download has finished, you're ready to install the product. Type the following into the Command Prompt.
setup /configure configuration.xml
- When your installation is complete, you'll be returned to the Command Prompt. Close the Command Prompt and return to the desktop. Your Office 2019 product will be installed and ready to use.
- If you need to install a different Office product, delete the "configuration.xml" file from the "OfficeSetup" folder and follow these instructions again beginning at Step Four: Download and Prepare the Configuration File.
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Method 2: Using batch scripts
This one is not recommend anymore due to the new update of Microsoft.
Step 1: Copy the following code into a new text document.
@echo off
title Activate Microsoft Office 2019 ALL versions for FREE!&cls&echo ============================================================================&echo #Project: Activating Microsoft software products for FREE without software&echo ============================================================================&echo.&echo #Supported products:&echo - Microsoft Office Standard 2019&echo - Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019&echo.&echo.&(if exist "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" cd /d "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16")&(if exist "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs" cd /d "%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16")&(for /f %%x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%%x" >nul)&(for /f %%x in ('dir /b ..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL*.xrm-ms') do cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:"..\root\Licenses16\%%x" >nul)&echo.&echo ============================================================================&echo Activating your Office...&cscript //nologo slmgr.vbs /ckms >nul&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /setprt:1688 >nul&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /unpkey:6MWKP >nul&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /inpkey:NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP >nul&set i=1
:server
if %i%==1 set KMS=kms7.MSGuides.com
if %i%==2 set KMS=kms8.MSGuides.com
if %i%==3 set KMS=kms9.MSGuides.com
if %i%==4 goto notsupported
cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /sethst:%KMS% >nul&echo ============================================================================&echo.&echo.
cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /act | find /i "successful" && (echo.&echo ============================================================================&echo.&echo #My official blog: MSGuides.com&echo.&echo #How it works: bit.ly/kms-server&echo.&echo #Please feel free to contact me at msguides.com@gmail.com if you have any questions or concerns.&echo.&echo #Please consider supporting this project: donate.msguides.com&echo #Your support is helping me keep my servers running everyday!&echo.&echo ============================================================================&choice /n /c YN /m "Would you like to visit my blog [Y,N]?" & if errorlevel 2 exit) || (echo The connection to my KMS server failed! Trying to connect to another one... & echo Please wait... & echo. & echo. & set /a i+=1 & goto server)
explorer "http://MSGuides.com"&goto halt
:notsupported
echo.&echo ============================================================================&echo Sorry! Your version is not supported.&echo Please try installing the latest version here: bit.ly/aiomsp
:halt
pause >nul
Step 2: Save the text file as a batch file with .cmd extension. (Eg. office2019.cmd).
Save the document file
Step 3: Run this batch file with admin rights.
Run the script with administrator rights
Step 4: Check activation status again.
Done! You Office has been activated successfully.
Note: If your PC can not connect to any KMS servers, please try running the batch file again.
More information:
- Here is KMS client key of Office 2019: NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP
- The KMS license of Office 2019 is valid for 180 days only but it can be renewed automatically so you needn't worry so much about the period.
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