Retiring my own Entra tenant: how can I preserve my existing Tech Community profile?
I have an existing Microsoft Tech Community profile with years of posts, replies, subscriptions, reputation and private messages. The profile is currently accessed using a work/school Microsoft account belonging to a Microsoft Entra tenant that I own and plan to retire (not migrate: retire). When I try to sign in with a personal Microsoft account, Tech Community presents a first-time consent screen, which makes me concerned that it would create a new profile rather than attach to the existing one. Unlike Microsoft Learn, I have not found any option to link accounts, merge identities, or change the sign-in identity for an existing Tech Community profile. Questions: Is there any supported way to preserve access to an existing Tech Community profile after the work/school account used to sign in is no longer available? Is there any supported way to transfer, migrate, associate, merge, relink, or otherwise preserve an existing Tech Community profile and its data? What happens to an existing Tech Community profile if the Microsoft Entra tenant that owns the work/school account is retired? If preserving the existing login identity is not possible, is there a supported way to preserve and transfer all existing profile data (posts, replies, subscriptions, private messages, badges, reputation, groups, follows, etc.) to a new account? I would appreciate guidance from Microsoft staff or anyone who has successfully gone through this process. Thanks!
Microsoft Support Assistant HTTP 500 with non-ASCII account names
Bug Report: Microsoft Support Assistant HTTP 500 with non-ASCII account names Summary Microsoft Support Assistant on support.microsoft.com returns HTTP 500 when the authenticated Microsoft account profile contains non-ASCII characters in the user's name. The same Support Assistant workflow works normally after changing the profile name to ASCII-only characters. This appears to be a server-side defect in the Microsoft Support Assistant / CMSP Peridot backend. Microsoft Support case Case number: 7109874722 Microsoft Consumer Support reviewed the issue and stated that it appeared to be a backend issue in the Support Assistant service and that it should be handled by a dedicated team. However, the case was ultimately closed without an engineering escalation. Initial state My Microsoft account profile contained: Given name: Тимофей Surname: Денисов Steps to reproduce Open https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/home/contact Enter: Gaming Services GameInput MSI detection defect Select Get Help Select Ask our Support Assistant Send the request. The Support Assistant sends a POST request to its backend Stream endpoint. The request returns: HTTP 500 Response body: {"error":"Request headers must contain only ASCII characters."} I reproduced the failure twice in the captured session. Browser-side HTTP headers The HTTP request headers sent by Firefox contain only ASCII characters. Therefore, the error does not appear to be caused by a non-ASCII HTTP header sent by the browser itself. The browser-side HAR shows the HTTP 500 response being returned by support.microsoft.com. A/B reproduction I then changed my Microsoft account profile to ASCII-only values: Given name: Timofey Surname: Denisov After making this change, I repeated the same Support Assistant workflow. The HTTP 500 error no longer occurred. Therefore, the observed behavior is: Microsoft account name contains Cyrillic characters ↓ Support Assistant ↓ HTTP 500 "Request headers must contain only ASCII characters." Microsoft account name changed to ASCII-only ↓ Same Support Assistant workflow ↓ No HTTP 500 This provides a reproducible A/B test showing a strong correlation between non-ASCII characters in the authenticated profile name and the server-side failure. Relevant data observed in the HAR The authenticated profile information includes the original Unicode values. The CMSP session initialization also contains: "UserDisplayName":"Тимофей" The Support Assistant Init request itself succeeds. The subsequent Stream request fails with HTTP 500. Relevant correlation IDs: 3b5e8862-81d1-4797-8f7b-8a05ffcc2b89 9829ec10-4d5a-4687-9ad9-ce2ea4c8b7db Additional environment information: Environment: emerald-prod-we Build: v20260923.1.official Browser: Firefox 157.0 OS: Windows 11 Enterprise 25H2 x64 Possible technical cause The exact internal request that fails cannot be observed from the browser-side HAR. However, the error message: Request headers must contain only ASCII characters. is consistent with a .NET HTTP client rejecting a non-ASCII value while constructing an outbound HTTP request. One possible explanation is that a value derived from the authenticated user's profile, such as GivenName, Surname, or UserDisplayName, is being inserted into an internal HTTP request header without appropriate encoding or validation. This is a hypothesis; the exact internal header and downstream request need to be determined from server-side telemetry. Expected behavior The Support Assistant should successfully process requests regardless of whether the authenticated Microsoft account contains Unicode characters in the user's name. At minimum, a valid Unicode profile value should not cause an HTTP 500 response from the Support Assistant backend. Actual behavior A Microsoft account profile containing Cyrillic characters causes the Support Assistant Stream request to return HTTP 500: {"error":"Request headers must contain only ASCII characters."} Changing only the profile name to ASCII-only characters removes the failure. Request Please investigate this as a Microsoft Support Assistant / CMSP Peridot backend defect. In particular, please check the server-side telemetry for the correlation IDs above and determine: Which internal HTTP request generated the ASCII-header exception. Which HTTP header contained the non-ASCII value. Which profile field supplied that value. Why the value was allowed to reach an HTTP header rather than being encoded, transformed, or rejected earlier. Whether other Microsoft Support Assistant users with non-ASCII account names are affected. I have the original HAR capture containing the complete browser-side HTTP exchange. I have not attached the full HAR publicly because it contains authentication/session information. The exact backend endpoint and the complete HAR can be provided through an appropriate private Microsoft support channel if required.
Questions about the number of views and likes on the post
What does it mean when I see eye icons under each of my posts with 200 or even 4.3k views? Does it mean how many people have viewed them? File History problems after installing KB5124008, KB5126052,KB5126146, KB5122878, and KB890830 | Microsoft Community Hub My posts get likes, but no replies. What does that mean? Is it because my posts aren't complete? Or...?
How to change my contact details on my MS Onedrive account
I have long had an MS account which I use for One Drive and also pay monthly for extra storage. I want to KEEP everything as it is EXCEPT: my login for that account is (still) what was until recently my main email address and I have used it for almost two decades. But changes at my ISP which DID run the email service but no longer does that and the ISP has sold the email service to an outfit who are truly awful mean that I am in the process of changing my contact details, i.e. my contact email address, to a new bespoke address - I registered a domain name and use that for email. NB The new outfit took over in the spring and in taking over the server they LOST all my emails stored on it. I have since been able to track down half of them, but many important emails have been lost for ever. They are a disaster and I have to make serious changes and I very soon hope to ditch that old email address completely. That brings me to my question: I need to change the login and details of my One Drive account. But I HAVE to keep ALL the files store on One Drive as well as keep the storage space I am renting. Microsoft’s ‘help’ FAQ are worse than useless, confusing and send us round in circles. So could someone from Microsoft help me out and advise me? If you want more details, please get in touch. PS It does NOT help that when trying to post this, I get an error warning and highlighting in red a sentence but no indication as to what might be wrong.What is the best Dell laptop for digital marketing and video editing?
Hi everyone, I'm looking for recommendations for a Dell laptop that can handle both digital marketing work and video editing. My main requirements are: - Smooth performance with multiple browser tabs and marketing tools - Good CPU and enough RAM for multitasking - Dedicated graphics for video editing - Good display and color accuracy - Fast SSD storage - Good cooling and battery life - Reliable performance for long working sessions I'm considering different Dell models but would appreciate recommendations from people who have actually used them for similar workloads. Which Dell laptop would you recommend, and what model/specifications have worked well for you? thanks in advance!
Help me recover my account.
Hi, My other Microsoft account was recently compromised but it was compromised before as well. When it was compromised before, the hacker added a recovery email for verification and to remove that I added my another email and the request was sent and it was supposed to change in October and I was not able to change the password or use other features of Microsoft because at some point it keep redirecting me to the page that I have sent a request but during that time period, my account was compromised again and I keep receiving emails of unusual sign-in activity by the hacker and I wanted to change the password but I couldn't because of that request so I was being patient. Now I received an email that someone accessed my Microsoft account and now I have to verify my identity to log in and to log in it ask me to type the email that the hacker set up because it's not changed and since I don't know what that is it takes me to the account recovery page where I put all the information that I know, I write in my postal code, my old and current passwords, date of birth etc. I have never used skype, Hotmail or outlook and Xbox so I just uncheck those boxes and then it asks me if I have ever bought any product but since I didn't so I uncheck that as well but then I just receive the email that the information I provided is nonsufficient even thou I provided all the information that is correct. Unfortunately Sign-in helper didn't work. Kindly help me resolve the issue. Looking forward to your positive response. Yours sincerely.Mendeley Add On Permission Error on Personal Device
I have the Mendeley plugin installed in Microsoft Word for a Windows computer. I have used this plugin for years and have had no issues. It is a personal computer owned by me and a personal account and personal subscription to office. Now when I try and use the add in it says "You don't have permission to use this add in. Contact your System Administrator to request access." While I do have Microsoft Accounts through two universities, these are not used on this device and should not have managing capabilities. How do I resolve this issue? I tried Microsoft Live Chat but they were useless.
