Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2024 install question

I have downloaded MICROSOFT Office PRO Plus 2024 v16.0.17928.20148 + Activator.
I'm used to these downloads having a setup executable but this one doesn't. It has a large img file. I have run the activator but it appears to have made no changes.
Any guidance on what my next steps would be will be greatly appreciated.

Double-click the IMG file to mount it as drive letter, then run setup from that drive.

I am having this problem when running the activator. Any advice?

mrko0210 said:

I am having this problem when running the activator. Any advice?

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rename file name to something shorter and run again as administrator.

ThumperTM said:

rename file name to something shorter and run again as administrator.

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Hey thumper, my activator(KMS_VL_ALL_AIO_v53) opens and immediately closes? I turned off windows defender. any advice? I've seen it mentioned for the MAS activator, where can I get that?

Surprise! You can't temporarily disable Defender any more regardless if Defender warns you it is disabled. Even though you disable real-time protection there are some programs it will continue to disable and remove (KMS for example). I haven't tried to permanently disable it, that's not reversable. My current workaround is to install a 3rd party A/V and whitelist the offending program. YMMV.

ThumperTM said:

rename file name to something shorter and run again as administrator.

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Tried this and the CMD prompt still tells me I can't use special characters

Im having the same issue even when changing the name to something shorter

colchian said:

Im having the same issue even when changing the name to something shorter

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Found this and took me all of 5 seconds to do it.

clist said:

I have downloaded MICROSOFT Office PRO Plus 2024 v16.0.17928.20148 + Activator.
I'm used to these downloads having a setup executable but this one doesn't. It has a large img file. I have run the activator but it appears to have made no changes.
Any guidance on what my next steps would be will be greatly appreciated.

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I have faced same situation. Caused by extremely long folder name with special characters.

0. Install MS Office 2024. but dont click on it yet.

Here are the steps I used to activate.
1. Disable Windows Defender from its settings page.
2. Copy the Activater (which is a batch file) and put it in a folder that has a short name not containing + | or any strange special characters used in naming the folder you downloaded.
3. If the Activator is flagged as threat by Windows defender goto defender settings and click on actions , allow and restore. this will restore the activatore batch file back into the folder you copied it.
4. Run the activator batch file as an administrator and then select option 2.
5. Office will be activated. and you will see the message as shown in the screenshot below.
6. After verifying that Office has been activated, Enable Windows defender.

It appears that this method only activates Office for 6 months. and the activation process has to be repeated after it gets expired in 6 months.