Microsoft never publicly released a VL edition of Office 2019, so the standard edition has to be converted to VL. I could never remember the steps, so this post is my operating notes for the next reinstall. If you spot a mistake, contact me.
- Editions: Retail — retail edition; Volume License — volume licensing edition, or VL for short
- Minimum requirement: Office Professional Plus 2019 supports Windows 10 and above only
- Special note: as of now, Microsoft has never publicly released an Office 2019 VL edition, so the only way is to convert the Retail edition to VL
Office Professional Plus 2019 Retail, original from Microsoft
- Edition: 32&64-bit
- File size: 3.52 GB
- Release date: 2018-10-03
- SHA1: D850365B23E1E1294112A51105A2892B2BD88EB9
- Download: ed2k://|file|cn_office_professional_plus_2019_x86_x64_dvd_5e5be643.iso|3775004672|1E4FFA5240F21F60DC027F73F1C62FF4|/
Installing Office Professional Plus 2019
After downloading the ISO image, install Office Professional Plus 2019 normally — no special steps.
KMS activation
Using my KMS activation service directly will hit a snag: since Microsoft never released an Office 2019 VL edition, the Retail edition has to be converted to VL first.
Plenty of so-called “Convert Retail to Volume” tools are floating around the web, but the principle is dead simple: their core job is installing the VL license files, plus a few helper functions. So the first step is converting Retail to VL — or more precisely, installing the VL licenses. The already-installed retail licenses don’t need to be removed; at the end you just uninstall the installed activation key.
The license files live in %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Office\root\Licenses16:
- ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE-ppd.xrm-ms
- ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE-ul.xrm-ms
- ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE-ul-oob.xrm-ms
- ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-pl.xrm-ms
- ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-ppd.xrm-ms
- ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-ul-oob.xrm-ms
- ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-ul-phn.xrm-ms
The filenames speak for themselves — install these seven files and you effectively have a VL edition. Activation works the same as any other edition. Here’s the whole thing — installing the VL licenses and activating — in one go. Right-click the Start menu (the Windows flag), choose Windows PowerShell (Admin) — it must be an administrator shell — paste, and run:
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"
cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE-ppd.xrm-ms
cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE-ul.xrm-ms
cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_KMS_Client_AE-ul-oob.xrm-ms
cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-pl.xrm-ms
cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-ppd.xrm-ms
cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-ul-oob.xrm-ms
cscript ospp.vbs /inslic:..\root\Licenses16\ProPlus2019VL_MAK_AE-ul-phn.xrm-ms
cscript ospp.vbs /inpkey:NMMKJ-6RK4F-KMJVX-8D9MJ-6MWKP
cscript ospp.vbs /sethst:kms.renfei.net
cscript ospp.vbs /act
cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus