Windows 11 Professional with Office 2021 Professional Plus

Overview

This image exists to compress two jobs into one. Rather than installing the operating system, waiting for it to settle, then downloading and installing an office suite and configuring it, the suite is already integrated into the image and is in place when the desktop first appears. For anyone setting up more than one machine that saves a considerable amount of waiting around.

The platform side is the 24H2 servicing branch of the Professional edition, carrying BitLocker full disk encryption, Hyper-V for local virtual machines, Remote Desktop as a host, Group Policy, domain join, Windows Sandbox for disposable testing and the update deferral controls that let you decide when a feature update arrives rather than having one land in the middle of something.

The hardware requirement gate has been removed. There is no TPM 2.0 check, no secure boot mandate and no processor generation cutoff, so machines that are otherwise perfectly capable but fall outside the official support list install normally rather than stopping at a compatibility message. The image boots on both UEFI and legacy BIOS systems.

The included office suite is the 2021 perpetual Professional Plus generation with Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access, Publisher and OneNote, carrying dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP, LAMBDA and the modern collaboration surface. Both the platform and the suite are preactivated, so the first boot goes straight to a working desktop with a working office suite and no setup steps left outstanding.

Key Features

• Combined image installing the platform and the office suite in one pass
• Multilingual x64 with the display language chosen during setup
• No TPM 2.0, secure boot or processor generation requirement
• BitLocker full disk encryption with TPM, PIN or password unlock
• Hyper-V and Windows Sandbox for virtual machines and disposable testing
• Remote Desktop host, Group Policy and domain join
• Update deferral controls for feature and quality updates
• Office 2021 Professional Plus with the full application set included
• Dynamic arrays, XLOOKUP and LAMBDA in the included spreadsheet application
• Both the platform and the suite preactivated with no post install steps

What Changed in This Build

• Image refreshed with the current cumulative and servicing stack updates
• Office component updated to its current point release
• Additional storage and network drivers integrated for recent hardware
• Setup no longer stalls on machines with several attached drives

System Requirements

Processor	1 GHz or faster, 64-bit, two or more cores
Memory	4 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended
Storage	80 GB minimum, 256 GB SSD recommended
Graphics	DirectX 12 compatible with WDDM 2.0 driver
Firmware	UEFI or legacy BIOS, TPM and secure boot not required

Release Details

Full title	Windows 11 Professional with Office 2021 Professional Plus
Version string	24H2 build 26100
Publisher	Microsoft
Category	Operating Systems
Licence	Preactivated
Platform	x64 systems, UEFI or legacy BIOS, no TPM required
Interface language	Multilingual, 18 display languages
Archive size	7.94 GB
Mirrors	4 active, all reporting online
Listed	refreshed 2 months ago, checked again 40 minutes ago

Installation Notes

• Back up everything on the target disk first. A clean install removes the contents of the partition it writes to.
• Write the image to a USB stick of 16 GB or larger, since this one is considerably bigger than a plain platform image.
• Disconnect secondary drives during setup so the boot loader is written to the disk you intend to boot from.

Before You Start

Read the notes above before running setup. Most of the problems people write in about are covered there, and almost all of them come down to an older version of the same software still being installed, a graphics driver that predates the release, or a security suite quarantining part of the package mid install.

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