Accidental Teams Free deletion email sent out - explanation and FAQs
Hi folks - My name is Sam Cosby and I help run the Customer Experience & Obsession side for Teams Free Organizations within the Teams Engineering Team at Microsoft. Thanks for feedback from some Teams Free users on the following thread, as this has helped convey a clear problem that we needed to address. The following post is to explain that particular problem in further detail, with some additional FAQs that should help us understand further for anyone who may have seen this. I'll follow up on this thread once the bug is fully resolved. I received an email stating my trial is ending for Microsoft Teams (Free), but I didn’t sign up for a trial, why did I receive this? Back in January of 2021, there was an implementation of a new method to help reduce the number of Teams Free organizations that go unused over a 90-day period of inactivity by deleting them. Only organizations that did not have any sign-ins during this period and/or the grace period after the 90 days (120 days in total), would eventually become deleted. Unfortunately, there was a bug that sent out notification emails to Teams Free Admins even if their organization was in use during the past 90 days. We’ve since fixed this bug and expect that we shouldn’t see any additional emails be sent out to organizations that have been recently used. Figure 1: Example of accidental email sent out. Will Teams Free still delete in the next few weeks? No, as long as Teams has been in use in the past 90 days. While there are articles out there that have shown Teams Free Admins how to view their license ‘duration’, it’s been confirmed that once the fix goes live that any Teams Free orgs impacted with the above email will be ‘extended’ automatically and won’t have to worry about any data loss. Why does Teams Free have a deleted state? There was a new organization deletion method created back in January of 2021 to help reduce organization clutter by implementing a new deletion policy on organizations that go unused over a 90-day period of inactivity by deleting them. Only Teams Free organizations that did not have any sign-ins during this period and during the 30-day grace period after the 90 days (120 days in total), would eventually become deleted. Will documentation be updated? Yes. We realized that while this new method to help reduce organization clutter was released, the documentation unfortunately did not get updated as expected. We’ll be making changes to this as soon as we can to address the new deletion policies for Teams Free orgs moving forward. What does deleted mean for Teams Free? When the subscription is deleted, customer data is deleted and Azure Active Directory is removed, if not in use by other services. Users can’t access Teams, files/apps/services in this state.
25201.1000 is failing with error 0xc1900101
**UPDATE** I orginally reported it as below, but it turns out after setting my clock back and re-trying the installation, that 25201.1000 is failing with error 0xc1900101. 25201.1 Insider Update Immediately Expired: Broken WSL According to my update history, last night I had the Windows 11 Preview 25201.1 applied to my machine, and this morning WSL was broken and I'm constantly nagged by a message "This build of Windows will expire soon". However when I look at winver, it shows that I have Version 22H2 25169.1. I'm unable to fetch any new updates, and Windows Update won't apply the latest antivirus patch because it says there's a problem with my PC system time (there is not). I use WSL every day and now both WSL and subsequently Docker are broken because of this... it's rather infuriating. Any suggestions on what I can do from here?
Reviving a laptop with an old Insider Preview
The laptop (Dell XPS 15 9560) was enrolled in the Insider program when I stopped using it due to technical issues. I finally resolved the problem and want to use it again. It's currently running Windows 10 Insider Preview 19645.1 (mn_release), installed in June 2020 and it's working great, but it's throwing an 'about to expire' error upon bootup and periodically during use. The laptop does not qualify for Windows 11, and Insider will not provide updated Windows 10 previews. I guess i need to move to the last regular release of Windows 10 Pro, but I'm unsure of how to proceed. Advice would be appreciated. I can't find the original product key, if that maqtters. Thanks.
