Preinstalled Office is usually not ProPlus (or any other KMS-compatible edition). Clean it off, and install fresh.
@sidjames45: I've used your disabletelemetry powershell script on Windows LTSC. It does what it has to do, checked the registry and all the entries have been set correctly. However, when looking at the folder in local appdata, Office is still happily saving files there. Is that the expected behavior? You stated "no files=no telemetry". Cheers.
Office 365 is above both, and all three have the same major version 16.0 and same files but technically, Office 365 belong to Office 2016 family
YAOCTRI v3.0 Fixed a small path detection bug if Configurator.cmd is ran from Office folder found at drive root e.g. C:\Office\ G:\Office\ -- Added another flavor of scripts: YAOCTRIR - Retail to install retail products for Office 365 / 2016 / 2019 Suites, in addition to Office 2019 Single Apps ment for users who have actual retail/subscription keys, and don't get along with the complexity of ODT or want to install Office 2019 retail on Windows 7/8.1 but you can still use it to install Retail SKUs, then use C2R-R2V to convert licensing to volume all options and menus are the same as YAOCTRI (Volume flavor), except few things: - letter button B is used to go back in menus, instead number 9 - PerpetualVL2019 channels are not available - Auto Activate option has no effect in YAOCTRIR, i just kept it for consistency - ini file will be named C2RR_Config (for differentiation)
I apologize if this question has been asked a million times, but in all the scripts that I've seen, I haven't seen an option to convert the install to VL. They all talk about first installing retail, then converting the license to volume (then use kms to activate). Do we need to wait for MS to release 2019 VL or is there a way to convert the offline installation from retail -> volume (so it installs VL without having to do anything post installation)? Thanks for all the hard work.
Excellent job, I can confirm it works 100%, no files anymore. Thanks for your support sidjames45! Cheers.
Thanks very much. Er, what does "SKU" mean? Is using any of the available tools actually up to each user's preference, or would it be better to use Deploy-N-Install or YAOCTRI instead of Ratiborus's tool for the standards of the forum? How would the later work, I wonder? Sorry for stupid questions, still globally too clueless and very short time to learn... Thanks
@abbodi1406: Thanks. Should I now use both Retail-VL converter and either Deploy-N-Install, WOTOK or YAOCTRI? Or these OfficeClickToRun-based tools would suffice to do the VL conversion as well? Finally, is using any of the available tools actually up to each user's preference, or would it be better to use Deploy-N-Install or YAOCTRI instead of Ratiborus's tool for the standards of the forum? How would the later work, I wonder?