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"In Review" means what? Can't message Allen"
I am a VM in Q&A (Office) and have been a participant here in the Word Community for some time. Recently I've notice the tag "In Review" on my posts. Here is an example: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/discussions/word/dynamic-pages-in-mail-merge/4531584/ What does this mean? Am I doing something wrong? I tried to send a message to Allen but do not believe it went through. When I click on "Send Message" it seems to be processing and then "Send Message" comes back active. When I checked in my profile under sent messages, nothing shows up for this. Thanks in advance. Charles Kenyon
Purview archive shipped. Delete policy is still armed.
Roadmap 561208 went GA over the last few weeks with very little noise. Purview retention policies in Data Lifecycle Management can now move inactive OneDrive and SharePoint content into Microsoft 365 Archive. The framing is storage cost. I want to talk about something else, because I think there's a gap here that's going to catch people out, and I'd like to know whether anyone else is seeing it. Archive is a storage tier. It is not a retention state. An archived SharePoint site stays fully in scope of every retention policy that applied to it while it was active. Nothing about archiving protects content. Now layer that onto conflict resolution. Retention beats deletion, so a site policy set to delete after 2 years goes dormant while a label is retaining the item. Dormant, not cancelled. So picture this: A file carries a retention label with a 4-year retention period. The site it lives on has a delete-after-2-years retention policy. The label's end-of-retention action is deactivate retention settings. For four years, everything looks correct. The label holds. The delete policy sits there doing nothing. Then the label reaches end of retention and deactivates. The shield is gone. The delete instruction wakes up, unopposed, two years overdue, and the file goes. Not to archive. Just gone. The reflex here is "explicit wins over implicit." It doesn't apply. That principle only arbitrates between competing delete actions. A label that expires with no delete action of its own brings nothing to the contest. There is no explicit action to outrank the policy with. "Do nothing" sounds like a safe default. It's actually a decision to stop defending the file. Right now you cannot set a label to archive at end of retention. The options are deactivate, delete automatically, disposition review, or hand it to a Power Automate flow. Archive isn't on the list. Microsoft shipped archive at the policy level and left the label level to flows and webhooks. That reads to me like they know the gap exists and haven't decided how to close it. And here's my suspicion about why this shipped now. Archived content is excluded from Copilot indexing. That's Microsoft's own framing in the message center post. Which suggests this feature is going to evolve on Copilot's roadmap rather than records management's. The moment "archive" becomes the button you press to clean up Copilot's answers, people will press it constantly, at scale, without once checking what policy is sitting underneath. Meanwhile Exchange has nothing. Purview retention still can't move mail into an archive mailbox, and we're all still running MRM tags next to Purview years after being told MRM was legacy. Has anyone hit the deactivate-into-delete scenario in a live tenant, or is this still theoretical? And does anyone read the label-level gap differently than I do? Genuinely open to being told I've got this wrong.
Azure Logic Apps Workflow Templates (Preview): Issues with Updates, Expressions, and Designer UI.
Hi Azure Logic Apps team, if someone from the team is monitoring this community, I would like to report a few issues I have encountered with the Logic Apps Workflow Templates (Preview) feature. These issues are impacting the user experience and require attention. Workflow Template name update issue I created a workflow template that was working correctly. However, when I try to edit the template and change its name, the update either fails or the new name is not saved. Other changes appear to work, but renaming the template is consistently problematic. Expression update issue with Base64 output When using the expression: base64(body('Create_CSV_table')) each time the email action is updated, the expression automatically changes back to: body('Create_CSV_table') This causes an Internal Server Error and requires manually fixing the expression every time the workflow is updated. This becomes very frustrating when managing multiple workflows. Logic Apps designer responsiveness issue The Logic Apps designer page is not fully responsive across different screen sizes. On my laptop screen, the Add Expression option disappears and is only visible when using a larger monitor. The designer should support different screen resolutions and provide a consistent user experience. Thank you for looking into these issues. Logic Apps Workflow Templates is a very useful feature, and addressing these problems would greatly improve usability for developers and users.
Hackers keep getting prompting me for a code on authenticator
Hello, I'm noticing that I get a random prompt for a code on the Authenticator app whose location appears to be in the Netherlands. I'm under the impression that these hackers just try logging into numerous accounts hoping that their victims will unknowingly push on a confirmation number and let them in. Is there a way to help prevent this? I would imagine that preventing logins based on unusal locations would help stop it but would like to hear your take. Thanks!A Helpful Read for Anyone Transitioning from AZ-204 to AI-200
I recently came across this blog while looking into the transition from AZ-204 to AI-200, and it turned out to be really helpful for me. It clearly explains what Azure developers should expect before July 31, 2026, including the key changes and what skills you might need to focus on. I especially liked how it breaks things down in a simple and easy-to-understand way. If you're currently preparing or thinking about moving into AI-related roles on Azure, this might be useful for you as well. Here’s the article: https://medium.com/@itexamstopics7/az-204-to-ai-200-what-every-azure-developer-needs-to-know-before-july-31-2026-1bded4a6f778 Would love to hear what others think about this transition.
Win11 update in BIOS loop.
11 July 2026 Hi My Win11 notebook was updating and then it suddenly went in to a BIOS loop. After downloading Win11 setup installation from the Media Creation Tool on a USB stick, I restrated the notebook with the usb in place and I reached the "Select setup option" see pic below. This screen asks to 1) Install Win 11 or 2) Repair my PC. I chose to repair my PC - clicked Next and was immediately returned to the "Select setup option" screen another loop? Anyway the other option is the Install Windoes 11 and check the "I agree everything will be deleted inc. files apps and settings". I am hesitant to use this option as I don't want to lose any of my data on the Sata Hdd. Q: Is there is another way to reinstall Win11 without loss of data? In order not to lose any data I decided to install a new Sata Hdd and Win11 - afresh. But now in the Bios the the newly installed Hdd is displayed but the usb stick with the Win11 setup from the Media Creation Tool is nowhere to be seen? Q: Why does the Bios does not recognize the usb stick with the Win11 setup when booted or when in the Bios? I have reset the Bios settings for the boot as advised on the manufacuture's website. Also, when I tried to read the old Hdd on another laptop the Hdd opens but the users field is empty - I read that this something to do with Hdd drive access privileges and need to reset to "anyone can access the Hdd". Not at all sure how to reset the Users access. To save the data on the old Hdd and get the new Hdd up and running - what is the best solution. Thanks, srm
Is anyone else seeing massive indexing latency with multi-file context in VS Code forks?
Hey everyone, I’m hoping to validate an issue I’ve been hitting over the last few weeks regarding AI extension indexing inside large repository architectures. We are currently scaling up our internal codebase, which heavily relies on deep module interdependencies. When running standard code completion engines like GitHub Copilot inside standard VS Code setups, the autocomplete triggers within an acceptable 200ms window. However, the moment we attempt to refactor across multiple files simultaneously, the context mapping breaks down completely. The engine fails to track variables across un-indexed modules, leading to hallucinated dependencies. To debug this, we isolated the environment and ran tests shifting the entire stack over to native forks designed specifically for deeper codebase comprehension. The difference in how the underlying systems handle background semantic indexing is night and day. If you are struggling with similar developer productivity bottlenecks, I highly recommend checking out this benchmark analysis on https://www.smashingapps.com/cursor-ai-vs-github-copilot-2026/84142046819000 to see how both indexing engines handle deep-context repositories under heavy loads. The core issue seems to stem from how the language server protocol handles multi-root workspaces versus single-directory indexing loops. Has anyone found a specific workspace setting or custom .gitignore optimization to force standard extensions to index cross-file boundaries faster without choking memory allocation? Appreciate any insights or configuration tweaks you guys might have!Problems: The folder has a number over 1000 and isn’t synchronising with the iPhone
I have created several folders with numbers in their names, such as ‘now1002rampf’; I can see these on OneDrive on my PC, but unfortunately not on my iPhone, OneDrive app. This only affects the ones with a number higher than 999.URGENT!!!! I NEED HELP WITH COPILOT ATT DESIGN TEAM!!!!!!!
I am reporting a serious and urgent issue with Microsoft Copilot. Over the past two weeks, I uploaded more than one thousand documents into a single Copilot conversation. These files were used for an ongoing, multi‑chapter historical and genealogical project. Without warning, the entire conversation disappeared from my chat history. Because Copilot ties uploaded files to the specific conversation thread where they were added, the disappearance of the thread has made every one of those files inaccessible. Nothing in the interface warned me that: conversations can be wiped or hidden without user action uploaded files do not persist outside the original thread losing a thread means losing access to all associated documents there is no recovery mechanism for deleted or missing conversations This resulted in the effective loss of two weeks of work and over a thousand uploaded documents. I need the design team to understand the severity of this issue. Users must have: A guaranteed way to preserve conversations that contain uploaded files A way to recover or restore deleted or missing threads A central location where all uploaded files can be accessed, regardless of thread Clear warnings that files are tied to a single conversation and will be lost if that thread disappears This is not a minor inconvenience — it is a critical data‑loss problem that affects trust, usability, and the viability of Copilot for long‑form or research‑heavy work. Please escalate this issue to the engineering and product teams. I need a way to recover my missing conversation or at least regain access to the files I uploaded. Thank you.
