Sending faxes using Windows 11.

In settings go to System (by default you might likely be there already)

Click on Optional Features/button on the right View features/type Windows Fax & Scan and it will appear

Windows 11 Enterprise 23H2 22631.3958

After installing the feature, I can confirm that step #1 is connect a phone line to your computer which I don't have :-(

I will investigate using my mobile - might have better luck...

Yup, successfully used ScanWritrPro v.3.2.14 to fax with my mobile (Note 9)

Greetings:

In my directory "App" there is no "Optional Features" page but I found it doing a keyword search in the Settings directory. I then did another keyword search "Fax" and discovered this feature does not exist in my MS 365 Personal version. So I feel pretty cheated. I'm running MS 365 Personal which updates automatically. There is no fax driver installed and, despite various claims around the web that all one need do is navigate to a checkbox, under Print and Document Services, this is not true. My system has no checkbox for a Windows Fax and Scan option on my system which is Windows 365 Personal. Worse, when I try to Google to find the driver for this feature, I receive the same erroneous instructions, like a broken record. Later, in this comment thread, one learns the Fax feature has been disabled.

The solution, obviously, is that (1) agents condition their replies knowledgeably to fit the system under discussion, not just regurgitate outdated information and (2) for MS to provide notice that this feature has been disabled. Clearly, currently, neither situation is in play.

One random guy (who only posted twice in 10 years) on page 1 claimed that it was disabled, which means diddly. HP, Canon and Epson continue to sell multi-function printers with fax capabilities in 2024. Microsoft only sells Windows 11 in 2024. Therefore you can fax within Windows 11 somehow.

We know that Microsoft fixed a security vulnerability in Windows 11 Fax services in March 2022.

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/advisory/CVE-2022-24459

Microsoft moved stuff around and documentation lagged. So the Microsoft staff (on page 1) gave the old way to get the windows Fax and Scan app. The current way was posted on page 3.

There is a thread here (I can't find it at the moment) that talks about not able to get the print to fax option in the new printer dialog, which was fixed by (I can't remember how) activating the old classic printer dialog. But that was a problem for large corporate environment.

Edit: Found the thread, if you don't get the print to fax option in your printer dialog, then you have to enable legacy printer dialog.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/printing-from-win32-application-new-after/881db830-6c42-450c-bb93-0a08f62ca647?page=5

You are wrong my friend. I was trying to install windows fax and scan and it's still there. Please, do not lie to the internet.

regards,

Max Stochaj

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nblggh4v8l9?hl=en-us&gl=US is no longer downloadable from the store. Windows 11 Enterprise ver 24H2 is no longer providing Windows Fax and Scan option. What happened to it? It is not in optional features and when Print and Document Services is enabled it still does not appear on our Windows 11 Enterprise 24H2 even after MS fixed the bug of the feature update. How do we resolve this?