Windows removed features
Observed content change
9 removed passages (about 60 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.
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Sections to inspect
- Features and functionality removed in Windows client
- Feedback
- Additional resources
Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.
Why this was flagged
The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: prerequisites. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.
Observation details · observed 12 Oct 19:35 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- 12 Oct 19:35 UTC
- Source update metadata
- 27 Aug 20:26 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 07:20 UTC
- Next check due
- today 13:20 UTC
Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.
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Timeline
From the capture of 12 Oct 19:35 UTC- 17 dates
- 1 undated section
- 11 with conditions
- 13 Aug 2020
- Retired / removedafter 9 Mar 2021 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- Retired / removed15 Jun 2022 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- November 2022 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- Retired / removed31 Mar 2023 Removed or unsupported
- Retired / removedFebruary 2024 Removed or unsupported
- Retired / removedJuly 2024 Removed or unsupported
- AnnouncedAugust 2024 Planned; nothing changes yet
- Retired / removed1 Oct 2024 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- Announced4 Nov 2024 Planned; nothing changes yet
- 25 Mar 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- Retired / removedMay 2025 Removed or unsupported
- AnnouncedAugust 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- Enforced by defaultSeptember 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- EnforcedAugust 2026 Now: Enforced; the override no longer helps
- Announcedafter November 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- 9 years ago
- 6 years ago
- 5 years agoafterRetired / removed · unconfirmed
- 4 years agoRetired / removed · unconfirmed
- 3 years agomonth window
- 3 years agoRetired / removed
- 2 years agomonth windowRetired / removed
DNS-SD
- 2 years agomonth windowRetired / removed
- 2 years agomonth windowAnnounced
- 2 years agoRetired / removed · unconfirmed
- 23 months agoAnnounced
- 19 months ago
- 16 months agomonth windowRetired / removed
- 13 months agomonth windowAnnounced · unconfirmed
- 12 months agomonth windowEnforced by default · unconfirmed
- 7 weeks agomonth windowEnforced
- Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC)in Removed features and functionalityMilestoneRequirement
Feature: Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC); Details and mitigation: Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC) has been removed from Windows 11, version 24H2 and above. WMIC…
- in 13 daysmonth windowafterAnnounced · unconfirmed
Settings and overrides named on this page
Registry values, policies and cmdlets the source mentions, with the dated steps that name them. Read the source for the values to set.
DNS-SDOverridestops helping February 2024February 2024AllowUserDecryptionOverrideWES7-SP1Override
Requirements, exceptions and scope
WES7-SP1AllowUserDecryption
Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.
Observed history and review priority
Captured 12 Oct 19:35 UTC; extracted 16 Oct 16:10 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.
Review priority. Previously extracted guidance is missing from a later capture · Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review · A published date window is near
0 date changes and 0 condition changes across 1 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 6 hours.
Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.
Retained observations · 3
Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.
- 12 Oct 19:35 UTC · 43 candidates
- 6 Oct 17:27 UTC · 8 candidates
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC · 8 candidates
Related public evidence
No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.
Retained observations
- 12 Oct 19:35 UTC · shown above
- 6 Oct 17:27 UTC
Source metadata changed; retained article content is unchanged.
- 5 Oct 17:20 UTC
Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.
What changed
First observed 18 Oct 2026No field changes in the recorded history.
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