Windows 10: Activation of Windows 10 without future phoning home

I'm working for an organization that wants to rollout PCs in bulk to remote locations. Those remote locations have very low bandwidth, poor internet connections and extra costs on data transfers. We pretty much have to assume they don't have internet and when they do have internet, we don't want them to use it whenever possible.


From what I understand, we've had issues in the past with Windows 10 machines becoming deactivated because Windows 10 "phones home" periodically to make sure its key is still valid and if it fails to contact Microsoft for long enough it removes the activation.


I've done a lot of searching and I can't seem to find any documentation that says what I've been told is true.


The organization has taken to working around this issue by activating Windows 10 only while the network cable is physically disconnected from the PC and then using the website for manual activation. I've been told that as long as it does not have internet access when Windows 10 is activated then it will never try to phone home in the future.


Unfortunately, I've been tasked with speeding up the process of imaging these machines and getting them out the door quicker. The process of manually registering both Windows 10 and Office through the website is time consuming when we could be automatically activating them through the internet.


So my question is: Is what I've been told correct? If so, is there a way to prevent Windows 10 from "phoning home" that doesn't involve manually activating these PCs through the web?

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