The Microsoft Office 2021 is the latest version of MS Office available in the market along with Microsoft 365 subscribtion. Microsoft is not dealing with the license/activation keys of all the previous versions of Office Suites e.g. MS Office 2013, MS Office16, and Microsoft Office 2019.
Now, what if you have any of the previous versions of Microsoft office like Microsoft Office 2019 or 2016 and you want to activate it in 2022? Well, there are some hacks, and you can now activate Micorosft office 2019 without a product key.
Note: You should always activate your office with the original activation/license key provided by Microsoft.
Do You Need to Activate Office 2019 in 2022?
Yes, If you already using any previous version of Microsoft Office Suites with an Office 365 subscription, your Office 2019 will be upgraded to the latest version automatically without doing anything.
If you are using Office 2019 or any earlier versions without activating the product with an original license key. After a 7-day trial license, most features of the program will be disabled and you won’t be able to enjoy the full features. To enjoy the full features you have to activate Office 2019 with the original product key.
Install Office 2019 without a product key
- Download Microsoft Office 2019 on your PC. After downloading the files, open it then run the Ms-office-2019 setup.exe file to install Office 2019 on your PC. See the image below…
- 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 the close button at the top right corner.
- Accept Microsoft license agreement, as you can see, I am using Office Professional Plus 2019 and the trial license will expire in 7 days.
How to activate Microsoft Office without a product key?
There are many methods available on the internet through which you can activate Microsoft office 2019 without a product key. In this article, we have listed some tested and working methods to activate Office 2019 without license keys with ease.
Method 1 – Activate Office 2019 With KMS license key – Running CMD
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 the 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.
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:s8.uk.to
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:s8.uk.to 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 2019 is activated successfully.
Method 2: Using batch scripts
Note: The Batch scripts activation method no longer works due to the new update of Microsoft. So we are not recommending this method.
Step 2.1: Copy the following code and past it 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=s8.uk.to if %i% EQU 3 set KMS=s9.us.to if %i% GTR 3 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: Right Click on the saved txt file and Run this batch file Administrator. See the image below…
Step 2.4: Check the activation status again.
Done! Your Office 2019 has been activated successfully.
Note: If your PC can not connect to any KMS servers, please try running the batch file again.
Q&A
Q: Can we use Microsoft Office without activation?
A: Yes, we can use Microsoft office without activation with some limited features. You need to activate the office with the original product key to enjoy full features.
Q: What happens if you If use Microsoft Office without activation?
A: Although, you can use Microsoft Office without activation, you will not be able to use the full features of Office without activation.
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