Install and activate Office 2019 for FREE legally using Volume license
After a series of preview versions, Microsoft finally came out with an official version of Office 2019. It is the stable one, this means you can download and use it right now without worrying about fatal errors which you have gotten in beta versions before. However, I regret to inform that according to the disclosures, Microsoft Office 2019 only works on Windows 10 or later. So if you are using Windows 8, 8.1 or older versions, you will not be able to install it. Honestly I hate what Microsoft have done to force users to use Windows 10. In my opinion, Office 2016 is still a good choice for casual users at the moment.
How to download 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. If you do not have Office 2019 already, just go here to get official download link from Microsoft homepage and select the version you want.
Installing Office 2019 without a product key
After the download process is complete, you will get an img file. Just open it then run the setup file to install Office 2019 on your PC.
This may take a while, please wait.
Upon successful installation, you can open any Office program to verify some basic information.
Just skip the “enter product key” window by clicking close button at the top right corner.
And as you can see, I am using Office Professional Plus 2019 and the trial license will expire in 7 days.
Activating Office 2019 using KMS license key
Method 1: Running commands one by one manually
Step 1.1: 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.
Step 1.2: Open location of the Office installed on your PC.
cd /d %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\Office16
cd /d %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office16If 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.
Step 1.3: 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.
Step 1.4: 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:107.175.77.7
cscript ospp.vbs /act
If you see the error 0xC004F074, it means that your internet connection is unstable or the server is busy. Please make sure your device is online and try the command “act” again until you succeed.
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:107.175.77.7
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.
Method 2: Using batch scripts
This one is not recommended anymore due to the new update of Microsoft.
Step 2.1: Copy the following code into a new text document.
@echo off
title Activate Microsoft Office 2019 (ALL versions) for FREE - MSGuides.com&cls&echo =====================================================================================&echo #Project: Activating Microsoft software products for FREE without additional 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&set i=1&cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /inpkey:NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP >nul||goto notsupported
:skms
if %i% GTR 10 goto busy
if %i% EQU 1 set KMS=kms7.MSGuides.com
if %i% EQU 2 set KMS=107.175.77.7
if %i% GTR 2 goto ato
cscript //nologo ospp.vbs /sethst:%KMS% >nul
:ato
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 [email protected] 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 24/7!&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 skms)
explorer "http://MSGuides.com"&goto halt
:notsupported
echo ============================================================================&echo.&echo Sorry, your version is not supported.&echo.&goto halt
:busy
echo ============================================================================&echo.&echo Sorry, the server is busy and can't respond to your request. Please try again.&echo.
:halt
pause >nul
Step 2.2: Save the text file as a batch file with .cmd extension. (Eg. office2019.cmd).
Step 2.3: Run this batch file with admin rights.
Step 2.4: 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 neednt worry so much about the period.
If you would have any questions or concerns, please leave your comments. I would be glad to explain in more details. Thank you so much for all your feedback and support!
Getting the following error.
Input Error: Can not find script file “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs”.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:6MWKP >nul
C:\Program Files (x86)\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.
Input Error: Can not find script file “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs”.
C:\Program Files (x86)\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.
Input Error: Can not find script file “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\ospp.vbs”.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16>cscript ospp.vbs /act
Appreciate help on solving this
Thanks
Hi,
I just used your method and it worked but now Google.com is not working. It says the certificate is broken. Is it a common problem? Im not sure how to fix it::
I would really appreciate your help thanks!
it ended with a “‘successfully applied setting”‘ I don’t know if to wait
I repeated the last program again but it showed wrong order passed or so
but it still said the same thing and also product key installation successful, so should I wait. I don’t know if its been up to 1 minute tho
will mine stll show after successfully applied setting. should I wait? using the first method
How to remove note: Licence not original, call original licence
KMS NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP seems to be blocked by MS at this time….
it works fine.
Thanks
I too am getting the your license isnt genuine, and you may be victim of software counterfeiting
Yeah, I am getting the same error even though the product is shown as activated. Please help.
I tried so many activators online but none of them worked except method 1 of this one.
It works correctly. It is the better website.
so who else is getting message in a yellow bar saying “your license isnt genuine, and you may be victim of software counterfeiting……….” any got solution for this error ?? TIA
I did, and I solved it by removing office from the computer, and using next config file:
And next install script:
@echo off
cd /d %~dp0
setup.exe /configure configuration.xml
pause
You’ll get the volume edition, so you don’t have to convert it, and as I did use the activation script earlier, it was activated instantly.
Config file:
!
!
Not Working!
—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
ERROR CODE: 0x80080005
ERROR DESCRIPTION: Run the following: cscript ospp.vbs /ddescr:0x80080005
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—Exiting—————————–
it worked!! thank you <3mari
Just got a banner informing license isn’t genuine. Ran the scripts through CMD once again but same error.
How to activate the MS VISO and Project 2019?
Thanks!
Method 1 worked.
I tried so many activators online but none of them worked except method 1 of this one.
Hi,
The Microsoft Office 2021 will launch in April, 2021. So, I just wanted to request you to post it’s activation steps on your website https://msguides.com/. I will be very thankful to you.
Thanks
Shaheer Mirza
GET GENUINE OFFICE yellow notification bar on Office 2019 app
Search in community => you will have a solution
The message will disappear
It really works. Thank YOU SO MUCH!
After performing both of the above, visio and project still asking for key during startup. please help
Hi!
What happens to the updates after using this method?
Greetings…
Hello, I used the First method and it worked fine for over a month but now it says “GET GENUINE OFFICE. You may be a victim of software counterfeiting. Avoid security risks get genuine Office now.” when I open excel or word file document. When I go to File > Account it still shows activated. How do I get rid of that “GET GENUINE OFFICE. You may be a victim of software counterfeiting. Avoid security risks get genuine Office now.” for good?
Hi there,
I’ve followed your excellent advise in the past with no problem but all of a sudden I’m getting the message:
ACTION NEEDED: Your license isn’t genuine, and you may be the victim of software counterfitting. Avoid interruption and keep your files safe with genuine Office today.
I’ve followed the KMS instructions several times but still getting the message. Any thoughts on what to do?
Michael
Hello, I used the First method and it worked fine for over a month but now it says “You may be victim of software counterfeiting” when I open excel or word file document. When I go to File > Account it still shows activated. How do I get rid of that “You may be victim of software counterfeiting” for good?
thank you !!!!! it worked 🙂
Pls i’m getting this error now on my Office 2019
“GET GENUINE OFFICE You may be a victim of software counterfeiting. Avoid security risks get genuine Office now.”
How do I resolve it please?
Same thing in french : POURQUOI PRENDRE DES RISQUES ? La licence d’Office n’est pas authentique et vous pouvez être victime de fraude logicielle. Restez en sécurité avec les logiciels originaux Office dès aujourd’hui.
What can I do to cancel this message ?
I tried your CMD method. When downloading from your link it works fine. But I cannot uninstall individual products like access and publisher if I download from your link. And the office is 32 bit — the download from the link you posted. I tried installing a pre-activated Office 19 I got from Torrent. There I can choose individual products I want to installed. It worked fine on my last windows, but on this fresh windows install, this message is shown no matter whatever I try to do to activate Office 19: microsoft office cannot verify the license for this product you should repair the office program by using control panel.
I’ll try and find individual 64 bit products on internet or at least a non-preactivated on torrent. I’m pretty sure your cmd method would work just fine on those sources.
Great! Thank You Very Much. You’re such a good help…
Hey there, as of today there is an issue with powerpoint. Is it usable, but a warning is displayed. It links to https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/stay-safe-with-a-genuine-office-license-f2c36e89-d113-4dbf-8e1c-86f7700bf647?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US
Is there a fix available or do I just ignore it?
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL! WORKING AS OF 2021
Using pirating windows in understandable, but why pirating office?
OP guy I really appreciate your works, but I really want you to let others know that their are many free open source office alternatives available on the web, please use those, and avoid using pirated software as much as possible.
My top 5 recommended free open-source Office alternatives are:
1. Libra Office
2. Free Office 2018
3. Only Office
4. Apachi Open Office
5. Ashampoo Office Free
Edit: These’re also lightweight, unlike Microsoft Office which comes all bloated and download/installation size in Gigs.
Guang, sou do Brasil e através do seu método, consegui ativar meu windows.
Gratidão pela sua vida!
OBS: Vim visitar seu blog, é o minimo que poderia fazer, depois da ajuda que você me deu.
Forte abraço.
Att,
@inayarakellym_
a lot of thanks brother