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rayyuen83 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 23:46:48 GMT

my stockhistory function returns value up to 4sept only. today() is stuck at 4sep

Favourites heart button in microsoft photos have dissappeared after the latest updates

Urmil_9 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:29:39 GMT

Favourites heart button in microsoft photos have dissappeared after the latest updates. Did reach out to support, tried repair, reset, reinstallation, complete format and reinstallation by theri team as well, still did not work

Custom Model Endpoint, Model Selection, and MCP Connector Reuse in Microsoft 365 Copilot

shobhit-vishwakarma — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 06:59:54 GMT

We're evaluating an integration between Microsoft 365 Copilot and a Claude model we host on Microsoft Foundry, and need to confirm current product capability before finalizing our architecture.

1. Direct Foundry Endpoint in Native M365 Copilot

Is there any supported way - today, in preview, or on a near-term roadmap to configure Microsoft 365 Copilot's native experience (Business Chat, and the in-ribbon Copilot entry point in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint) to route to a model hosted in our own Microsoft Foundry resource, rather than Microsoft's default hosted models?

We're aware custom engine agents published via Teams/Copilot Chat exist as a separate, user-invoked surface, we need to confirm specifically whether the native Copilot experience itself can be pointed at a customer-managed endpoint, at any tenant or admin level.

Additionally, can we use the custom engine agents in Office Apps (If we have M365 Copilot License)?

2. Model Picker in the M365 Copilot Interface

Is there any existing or planned capability for end users, or tenant admins via policy, to select which underlying model handles a given Copilot session directly within the Copilot chat interface? If anything along these lines exists in preview or is on a roadmap, we'd appreciate details.

3. Reuse of Tenant MCP Connectors by Pro-Code Custom Engine Agents

There are MCP servers already registered as Microsoft 365 Copilot connectors at the tenant level, but pro-code custom engine agents (built via the Microsoft 365 Agents SDK or Microsoft Foundry) do not inherit that same connector registry and must instead independently configure access to the same MCP Server connections.

Can you confirm whether this is accurate, and whether there is any supported way for a Foundry-built custom engine agent to reuse an MCP server already registered as a tenant-level Copilot connector, rather than reconfiguring that same connection separately?

We'd like to confirm whether any of the above is achievable through configuration, licensing, or preview features before deciding the feasibility.

Why Did Microsoft's Dedicated Product Communities Disappear?

Davek777 — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:15:06 GMT

Over the past few months, it looks like Microsoft has quietly removed or collapsed many of the dedicated product communities — including the Copilot Users Group, Tips & Tricks sections, and other structured hubs that used to exist under the old Answers/Community system. If you post a NEW question, you can still find them (see below), but I’ve found no way to reliably locate one and browse.

Today, everything funnels into the generic Learn/Answers front door, and normal navigation no longer exposes product‑specific groups. The only way I’ve been able to reach them is accidentally: if a search returns zero results (announcements don't count), the system offers the opportunity to “ask a question,” (with that header), and only then does it reveal a product/community picker for the "posting space." Without that side‑door, the communities appear to be gone.

This raises a few questions:

Were the dedicated communities intentionally depreciated, or is this an unintended side effect of the Learn/Answers consolidation?
Is the conditional “ask a question” picker now the only official way to reach product‑specific groups?
If communities still exist, why are they no longer discoverable through normal navigation?
Is Microsoft planning a replacement structure, or is everything moving toward a single flat Q&A model?

I’m asking because the old product communities were genuinely useful — especially for product-specific workflow tips, user‑to‑user knowledge sharing, and related discussions.

If anyone has insight into the reorganization, or knows whether the dedicated communities are coming back, I’d appreciate it.

P.S. If anyone has seen a different workflow or found a reliable navigation path, I’d be interested in hearing it.

Account Recovery Methods

HumansoverTech2026 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:49:31 GMT

Trying to recover account for months with no luck. I had a old phone with the account still on it so I copied the subject lines and emails directly. This is the main reason I'm so confused why the system keeps declining me. I reach out to customer service and they can't even help as the system has no human interference. Solution? Keep trying or create a new email with them. I've seen smaller companies with better solutions, ridiculous.

Proposal : Offline Copilot Appliance for Education

OLDSCHOOLITENGINEER74 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:43:59 GMT

Hi all at Microsoft, I am one of your old school engineers. An inspired idea suddenly came to me this morning when I saw how school institutions are suffering with cloud based infrastructure. I ran the idea through Copilot for analysis. Here is the output. Hope you can implement it. Cheers.
Proposal: Offline Copilot Appliance for Secure, High Compliance Environments
Executive Summary
I am proposing a new Microsoft product category: Microsoft Copilot Secure Appliance (MCSA). This is a hardware bound, offline capable AI system designed for education, and regulated enterprise environments where cloud dependent AI is not viable.
This product creates a new high margin revenue stream for Microsoft without reducing Azure consumption. It addresses a global market segment currently underserved by cloud only AI offerings.
Market Problem
Many sectors cannot rely on cloud dependent AI due to regulatory constraints, air gapped networks, national security requirements, offline resilience mandates, Azure outage sensitivity, and strict data sovereignty laws.
These customers require deterministic offline operation, hardware locked security, predictable performance, controlled update channels, and zero cloud dependency.
Microsoft currently has no product that satisfies these requirements.
Proposed Solution: Microsoft Copilot Secure Appliance (MCSA)
A dedicated, hardware accelerated AI appliance that runs a local Copilot class model with offline reasoning, offline inference, hardware bound licensing, encrypted model weights, TPM secured boot, signed update packs, and optional cloud augmentation.
This creates a premium enterprise product similar to Cisco UCS, Palo Alto firewalls, Azure Stack Edge, and HoloLens Industrial Edition, but focused on AI reasoning and secure offline operation.
Revenue Model
Hardware sales: estimated unit pricing between $8,000 and $20,000 per appliance.
Subscription update packs: monthly or annual licensing for model updates, knowledge packs, security patches, and compliance modules. Estimated recurring revenue between $200 and $500 per device per month.
Enterprise support contracts: premium support tiers for government, defense, critical infrastructure, education districts, and regulated industries. Estimated annual revenue between $50,000 and $250,000 per organization.
This model does not compete with Azure. It expands Microsoft’s footprint into markets where Azure cannot operate.
Strategic Benefits to Microsoft
New revenue channel. Offline AI appliances represent a high margin vertical market that Azure cannot reach.
Government and defense adoption. Many countries legally require offline AI systems. This product satisfies those mandates.
Education resilience. Schools worldwide experience outages when cloud identity fails. An offline Copilot appliance restores deterministic operation.
Competitive advantage. No major cloud provider currently offers a secure offline AI appliance with enterprise reasoning capabilities.
Brand alignment. Fits naturally into Microsoft’s existing ecosystem including Azure Stack, Surface Hub, Defender for IoT, Confidential Computing, and Copilot for Enterprise.
Technical Feasibility
The system can be built using quantized large scale models, secure hardware accelerators, TPM bound licensing, encrypted model weights, signed update packs, and local inference runtimes.
Estimated development cost: between $150 million and $400 million. Estimated annual maintenance: between $20 million and $45 million.
This is well within Microsoft’s R&D capacity.
Conclusion
The Microsoft Copilot Secure Appliance represents a strategic opportunity to expand Microsoft’s AI leadership into markets where cloud dependent AI cannot operate.
It is technically feasible, commercially viable, high margin, globally relevant, aligned with government and enterprise needs, and complementary to Azure rather than competitive.
I believe this product would strengthen Microsoft’s position in secure AI, expand revenue, and address a critical gap in the current AI ecosystem.

How to resolve Package validation check errors

KumarP — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:54:09 GMT

When running Package validation report showing three errors
1. Silent Install check
2. Entry in Add/Remove programs
3. Bundleware check.

Please help me any help article on this topic or suggest ways to fix.

Thanks!

We couldnt find an Account with that Username

Sav4 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 12:23:18 GMT

My son recently turned 15 and has lost access to his outlook account. Not sure if it is a coincidence or not. We can not use the recover option as it says the user can not be found, cant recreate it as it says its already in use. I used this

https://account.live.com/username/recover

and it sends the verification email but i cant gain access to the account is there any way to regain access to it . It was linked to a microsoft family safety group .

Any help with this would be appreciated .

Thank you

Downloads Stuck at 100%

JuustiD — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:26:59 GMT

Hi all, currently getting stuck with all downloads ending at 100% then sitting like this for 1-2 minutes before finalising and being able to open. Does anyone know the cause or how to rectify it, it's doing my head in having tiny PDFs refuse to open for ages.

[Help]Tips on how to chat with live customer service

sheraton — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 05:25:07 GMT

How can I chat with live customer service and the technical team to get their assurance that Microsoft will fix the issue or is currently investigating it, such as the file history log problem?

For example, these two posts:

Windows 11 to KB5101684 File History bug | Microsoft Community Hub

Win 10/11 file history is malfunctioning after an update why hasn't Microsoft fixed this issue yet? | Microsoft Community Hub

[Help] Posting Tips

sheraton — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 03:10:01 GMT

Hello, how can I make my Microsoft Community Hub posts more engaging, get hundreds of views, and receive many replies?

For example, these two posts:

Windows 11 to KB5101684 File History bug | Microsoft Community Hub

Win 10/11 file history is malfunctioning after an update why hasn't Microsoft fixed this issue yet? | Microsoft Community Hub

300-400 people viewed this, but only 2 replied. Why is this? It's clearly used for file history logging. The error occurred after updating KB5101684; other users should have noticed this.

I'm worried Microsoft will never be able to fix it.

I replied to the message. When will it be approved?

sheraton — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:20:04 GMT

Someone replied to my post, and I successfully replied with a status update: In Review, Awaiting Review. When will it be approved? However, if I check theunder review section, the post doesn't seem to be under review. When will it be approved?When will my reply to the message be approved, administrator?

File History has stopped functioning | Microsoft Community Hub

Welcome to comment if KB5101684 or KB5120249 caused the same File History issue. | Microsoft Community Hub

Possible File History Issues After KB5101684 and KB5120249 on Windows 11 and Windows 10 | Microsoft Community Hub

win 11 25H2 KB5101684 Preview and win 10 22H2 KB5120249 issue | Microsoft Community Hub

This issue occurred after I and other users installed KB5101684, disrupting File History. | Microsoft Community Hub

Win 10/11 file history is malfunctioning after an update why hasn't Microsoft fixed this issue yet? | Microsoft Community Hub

Please confirm the KB5101684 File History issue and release a fix in the August security update. | Microsoft Community Hub

Windows 11 to KB5101684 File History bug | Microsoft Community Hub

Microsoft account locked

Budedwards — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:10:22 GMT

I am out of ideas and extremely frustrated with the lack of support offered by Microsoft.

I was prompted to reset my password this morning (i didnt request it)

Sadly i do not know the current password and had not saved in Google Chrome.

I do have access to the authenticator on my mobile so i figured it would be simple!

No matter what i tried i could not reset the password. Now i have locked the account trying incorrect passwords to many times.

Is there a way that i can actually get physical support from Microsoft?

I have a family history of images on Onedrive that i simply cannot lose access to.

Xbox history and purchased games, less important but still annoying.

Outlook, years of emails and attachements.

If anyone has any ideas im all ears...

How can I delete my posts on the community hub?

sheraton — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:22:36 GMT

How can I delete my posts on the community hub? Please have the administrator delete the following posts for me:

Possible File History Issues After KB5101684 and KB5120249 on Windows 11 and Windows 10 | Microsoft Community Hub

Please confirm the KB5101684 File History issue and release a fix in the August security update. | Microsoft Community Hub

This issue occurred after I and other users installed KB5101684, disrupting File History. | Microsoft Community Hub

Also, someone replied to my post. My reply is still under review. Please approve it. Thank you.

Content Not Published Your post contains invalid HTML.

jeffsbaker — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:27:49 GMT

"Content Not Published

Your post contains invalid HTML. Remove the following invalid tags before publishing: p (data-afsc-id)"

That message appears just about every time I try to post something in this forum. It is so annoying. Can't someone fix the forum so that it stops doing this? I am never posting any html. Apparently, the forum is adding the html itself and then saying that I can't post it.

Career Change

DarylG1 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:08:18 GMT

Hello

I am after some advice if possible please?

I am looking for a career change to get into I.T and wanted to ask the best way to get my foot in the door please?

I have a family to support and wondered if anyone else went through the same thing and how they supported their family while learning. I have been looking and got a few ideas in mind but I want to make sure everything is covered before going ahead.

I am very passionate about computer technology and would love to learn more about it and build a great career through it.

All support is appreciated.

Thanks

Community Hubs page frequently blank

RyanSteele-CoV — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:22:27 GMT

Hi,

It seems like half of the time I click on the "Community Hubs" link in the navigation bar, the page comes up blank. Is someone looking into this?

Microsoft 365 Copilot Training: Explore Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

MTRM — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:20:29 GMT

Hello , I have recieved an invitation to join this event on August 18th 2026 but all options are easter/european times. Do you have this session available for America's time zone? Microsoft 365 Copilot Training: Explore Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat

Building Production-Ready Pipelines in Azure DevOps: Beyond the Documentation Examples

AbdullahShahid984 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:27:44 GMT

Hi everyone,

When moving from basic Azure DevOps tutorials to enterprise production environments, we all quickly realize that documentation examples don't always cover real-world complexities. Handling multi-stage dependencies, keeping Terraform state secure, and managing secrets across environments requires a highly strategic approach.

To help DevOps engineers bridge this gap, I recently put together a deep-dive architecture breakdown detailing how to build a resilient, multi-stage YAML pipeline from scratch.

Here is a quick look at the core enterprise architecture I focus on:

- Multi-Stage Lifecycle: Safe progression flows through Build, Dev, QA, UAT, and Production stages.

- Infrastructure Automation: Clean integration with Terraform, including state and secrets management using Azure Key Vault.

- Security Gates: Implementation of SAST scanning, Workload Identity, and automated approval policies.

- Team Alignment: Connecting Azure DevOps with project tools like Asana to streamline cross-platform tracking.

I wanted to share this pattern here to get some community feedback on the YAML structure.

Before I post the full configuration snippets, I would love to hear how your teams handle environment gates and approvals. What are the biggest bottlenecks you run into with multi-stage YAML pipelines? Let's discuss in the comments below!

Best regards,

Abdullah Shahid

Again Exam Voucher not available

corradus — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 10:04:15 GMT

Today, 1 of august again I don't see any voucher available for exam disccount.

I see it happened also to other MCT in the last days.

I wanted to book an exam urgently and I cannot. Any idea?

Regards.

Corrado