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Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) crashing when generating settings report for a massive baseline policy GPO

Hello everyone, I am attempting to run a settings documentation report for our master corporate workstation security baseline GPO. Whenever I select the group object inside gpmc.msc and click the "Settings" tab, the management console freezes…

Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
asked 2026-06-09T07:53:27.7866667+00:00
Laura Mayer 40 Reputation points
commented 2026-06-09T14:12:17.2033333+00:00
Laura Mayer 40 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

AFD domains asking for revalidation though it was already done 2 years back

PII for this resource there are three domains already validated long back, and now recently it showed to renew the azure managed certificates, and usually azure used to take care of renewal of azure certs, but today all of a sudden we are seeing to…

Azure Front Door
Azure Front Door

An Azure service that provides a cloud content delivery network with threat protection.

1,236 questions
asked 2026-05-19T10:44:15.13+00:00
Nikhil Mamillapalli 25 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
commented 2026-06-09T13:34:05.5266667+00:00
Steph Jones 0 Reputation points
3 answers

New surface laptop pro start and taskbar search stopped working

I just got a new surface laptop with windows 11. After using it for literally an hour or so the search in the start menu and taskbar completely stopped working. This is the second surface laptop with this issue… I got one a few weeks ago and had this…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Performance and system failures
asked 2026-05-29T23:59:10.2466667+00:00
EMilGoob 5 Reputation points
commented 2026-06-09T13:28:06.2166667+00:00
Vikki-T 11,155 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Unexpected Azure Billing Charges

My bill suddenly increased this month. I didn’t create anything new.

Cost Management
Cost Management

A Microsoft offering that enables tracking of cloud usage and expenditures for Azure and other cloud providers.

5,019 questions
asked 2026-03-18T13:54:06.9333333+00:00
tim s 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-06-09T13:24:48.5866667+00:00
Anonymous
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Change color of Hebrew cantillation characters

Word options (Advanced) allow me to change color of all diacritics. I would like to change all diacritics to green and then change cantillation marks to red. Cantillation marks are Hex 0591-05AE, or Dec 1425-1454. I wonder if this can be done by ctrl-H,…

Developer technologies | Visual Basic for Applications
asked 2026-06-02T21:42:52.3833333+00:00
joe lewis 40 Reputation points
answered 2026-06-09T13:24:08.3866667+00:00
joe lewis 40 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Entra ID limit users

Can we limit a Entra User only can access to all resources under subnet 10.10.0.0/24 and block accessto other subnet?

Microsoft Security | Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Entra ID
asked 2026-06-08T13:38:15.49+00:00
Handian Sudianto 7,471 Reputation points
accepted 2026-06-09T13:13:13.0866667+00:00
Handian Sudianto 7,471 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Teams bidirectional translation toggle missing for external users

We are using Microsoft Teams virtual appointment meetings with language interpretation enabled. We can assign the interpreter role to both internal and external users successfully. However, external interpreters do not see the bidirectional language…

Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Teams for business | Meetings and calls | Other
asked 2026-05-18T12:28:54.62+00:00
Mykhailo Sokol 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-06-09T13:05:06.92+00:00
Liora D 18,930 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Cannot enable replication on Azure Site Recovery

Hi Everyone, After the outage on West US 2, on 29 May 2026. I cannot enable replication for Physical Server in Azure Site Recovey. Is anyone facing the same issue? Error logs: An error has occurred. Please refresh the blade to try again. Thank you.

Azure Site Recovery
Azure Site Recovery

An Azure native disaster recovery service. Previously known as Microsoft Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager.

978 questions
asked 2026-05-30T03:21:14.0833333+00:00
SWiZ 35 Reputation points
commented 2026-06-09T13:01:15.58+00:00
SWiZ 35 Reputation points
5 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Convert to Pay-as-you-go by June 18, 2026 to retain your Azure resources

Received an email regarding : ou’re receiving this email because your Microsoft Azure $100 monthly credit (awarded with your Partner Program purchases) subscription has ended. Because your Microsoft Azure monthly credit subscription has ended, your…

Cost Management
Cost Management

A Microsoft offering that enables tracking of cloud usage and expenditures for Azure and other cloud providers.

5,019 questions
asked 2026-06-01T13:40:30.2066667+00:00
pierre shiraziefard 165 Reputation points
accepted 2026-06-09T12:32:07.6766667+00:00
pierre shiraziefard 165 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

SharePoint 2019 On premise Birthday wishes email

Hi HELP PLEASE how to create a workflow for birthdays of colleagues I List a sheet where there is a name and date birthdays, how to make it so that during a birthday a friend receives email Name is Single line of text Date is Date and Time BEST…

Microsoft 365 and Office | SharePoint Server | For business
Microsoft 365 and Office | SharePoint | For business | Windows
asked 2023-07-05T22:11:39.74+00:00
Irakli Injgia 206 Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-06-09T12:30:20.1566667+00:00
Jhon Daniel 0 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Can't download Windows 11 ISO

Hello World! I'm trying to download Windows 11 ISO from official website, but I'm struggling because I live in Russian Federation. I'm trying to move from Arch Linux (EndeavourOS) to Windows 11 with Windows Subsystem For Linux 2. Could anyone provide me…

Windows for home | Windows 11 | Install and upgrade
asked 2026-06-09T09:31:30.7366667+00:00
lampdev 20 Reputation points
commented 2026-06-09T12:02:47.1833333+00:00
lampdev 20 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

In azure TTS speech playground, there is no way to generate speech

I'm in the speech playground text to speech area. It feels like there should be a box to enter text but there isn't. There is however, a "try it out" in each voice sample. However, entering text in that area and clicking play produces no sound.…

Azure Speech in Foundry Tools
asked 2026-06-09T02:24:18.3766667+00:00
Peter 20 Reputation points
answered 2026-06-09T11:56:57.4866667+00:00
SRILAKSHMI C 19,735 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff Moderator
2 answers

Authenticator locked and cannot access at all after replacing phone

Got a new phone and authenticator asked me to change password for outlook. No change in phone number. Did that but kept on going in circles asking for authenticator code when I have no access to authenticator. Asked to change password so I did . Now…

Microsoft Security | Microsoft Authenticator
asked 2026-06-09T11:11:12.2933333+00:00
Peggy Gemert 0 Reputation points
commented 2026-06-09T11:39:56.5666667+00:00
Peggy Gemert 0 Reputation points
4 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Brackets in Outlook.com Interface

Looking at my Inbox page in Outlook.com, why are there brackets around the number indicators for the Draft and Junk folders in the left folders pane?

Outlook | Web | Outlook.com | Email
asked 2026-06-08T11:33:54.9566667+00:00
Mike Wagner 20 Reputation points
answered 2026-06-09T11:19:21.8166667+00:00
Mike Wagner 20 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Assistance Needed - Volume Licensing Access Issue

Hi, We previously had access to download Windows OS ISOs through the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC). Even for our recently purchased Windows 2025 license, I was able to download it a couple of months ago. However, when I now access the…

Windows for business | Windows Server | Devices and deployment | Licensing and activation
asked 2025-10-28T22:07:02.0233333+00:00
Weni Fernandez 20 Reputation points
accepted 2026-06-09T11:16:00.48+00:00
Weni Fernandez 20 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Test Q&A Post - Entra ID

Creating this post for testing purpose. <<Internal Use only>> Microsoft Entra ID need help to configure SAML SSO application.

Microsoft Security | Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Entra ID
asked 2026-06-09T08:34:22.1666667+00:00
Raja Pothuraju 47,825 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
accepted 2026-06-09T10:34:39.56+00:00
Raja Pothuraju 47,825 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

AppLocker script enforcement rules blocking legitimate internal administrative PowerShell scripts

After implementing an AppLocker script enforcement policy, we noticed an unintended side effect. End users are successfully restricted from running untrusted scripts, but internal login automation used by the helpdesk is also being denied. The scripts…

Windows for business | Windows 365 Enterprise
asked 2026-06-09T08:04:26.0233333+00:00
Sanne Dejong 40 Reputation points
accepted 2026-06-09T10:23:24.18+00:00
Sanne Dejong 40 Reputation points
2 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How can I restore the settings in the authenticator app?

I have a 365-business basic account, but am unable to log in. Appartly have done something wrong with installing the authenticator. When trying to log in, Window asks to give the code of the authenticator, but it isn't there in the app. The authenticator…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Subscription, account, billing | For business | Other
asked 2026-06-01T12:55:47.3366667+00:00
Bart van Leijen 20 Reputation points
edited an answer 2026-06-09T10:19:45.8566667+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

How can a small software publisher build SmartScreen reputation?

We are a legitimate German software company (Dr. Dresing & Pehl GmbH) publishing qualitative data analysis software since many years. After renewing our OV code signing certificate (Sectigo, valid until 2028), our installers show the "Windows…

Microsoft Security | Microsoft Defender | Other
asked 2026-04-10T09:26:46.8866667+00:00
it audiotranskription 20 Reputation points
accepted 2026-06-09T10:02:31.5666667+00:00
it audiotranskription 20 Reputation points
5 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Q: Accidental deletion: Can I recover OneDrive Recycle Bin files after my Microsoft 365 subscription expired?

Please help if possible. I need urgent help recovering files that were deleted from my Desktop. My one-time Microsoft 365 subscription expired in 2024, but I didn't realize my Desktop folder was still actively syncing to OneDrive. Recently, I…

Microsoft 365 and Office | Subscription, account, billing | For home | Other
asked 2026-06-06T12:19:11.0666667+00:00
ADG 25 Reputation points
edited a comment 2026-06-09T09:54:36.6833333+00:00
ADG 25 Reputation points