Sending faxes using Windows 11.

The Fax option is no longer supported in Windows 11....

You must use a 3rd party fax product such as efax etc.

Yet again Windoze has screwed the client base.....

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

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is that (1) agents condition their replies knowledgeably to fit the system under discussion, not just regurgitate outdated information and (2) for MS to provide notice that this feature has been disabled.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.

Has anybody been able to configure Windows Fax and Scan, so that they can send faxes free using Microsoft 365 Word?

i d not think so, but i need fax account to participate on plympiad