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Observation details · observed 23 Oct 09:55 UTC
Observed by ChangeIntel
23 Oct 09:55 UTC
Source update metadata
27 Aug 20:26 UTC
First observed on this installation
5 Oct 17:20 UTC
Last successful check
today 05:02 UTC
Next check due
today 11:02 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 23 Oct 09:55 UTC
  1. 13 Aug 2020
  2. Retired / removedafter 9 Mar 2021 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  3. Retired / removed15 Jun 2022 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  4. November 2022 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  5. Retired / removed31 Mar 2023 Removed or unsupported
  6. Retired / removedFebruary 2024 Removed or unsupported
  7. Retired / removedJuly 2024 Removed or unsupported
  8. AnnouncedAugust 2024 Planned; nothing changes yet
  9. Retired / removed1 Oct 2024 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  10. Announced4 Nov 2024 Planned; nothing changes yet
  11. 25 Mar 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  12. Retired / removedMay 2025 Removed or unsupported
  13. AnnouncedAugust 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  14. Enforced by defaultSeptember 2025 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  15. EnforcedAugust 2026 Now: Enforced; the override no longer helps
  16. Announcedafter November 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  1. 9 years ago
  2. 6 years ago
  3. 5 years agoafterRetired / removed · unconfirmed
    • Microsoft Edgein Removed features and functionalityMilestoneRequirement
  4. 4 years agoRetired / removed · unconfirmed
  5. 3 years agomonth window
  6. 3 years agoRetired / removed
  7. 2 years agomonth windowRetired / removed
    • PNRP APIsin Removed features and functionalityMilestoneRecommendation
      DNS-SD
  8. 2 years agomonth windowRetired / removed
    • 3D Builder appin Removed features and functionalityMilestoneRequirement
  9. 2 years agomonth windowAnnounced
    • Paint 3Din Removed features and functionalityMilestone
  10. 2 years agoRetired / removed · unconfirmed
    • WordPadin Removed features and functionalityMilestoneRecommendation1 condition
    • Alljoynin Removed features and functionalityMilestoneRecommendation1 condition
  11. 24 months agoAnnounced
    • Paint 3Din Removed features and functionalityMilestone
  12. 19 months ago
    • Location Historyin Removed features and functionalityMilestoneRequirement1 condition
  13. 17 months agomonth windowRetired / removed
    • 3D Builder appin Removed features and functionalityMilestoneRequirement
  14. 14 months agomonth windowAnnounced · unconfirmed
  15. 13 months agomonth windowEnforced by default · unconfirmed
  16. 8 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…
  17. in 6 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 2024
  • AllowUserDecryptionOverride
  • WES7-SP1Override

Requirements, exceptions and scope

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 23 Oct 09:55 UTC; extracted 23 Oct 09:55 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/d9863eb412f92fa5ec3a8ca32e2dd7cfe8095530f456ecb1866608d1166a435d.

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 2 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 · 4

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.

Retained observations

  • 23 Oct 09:55 UTC · shown above
  • 12 Oct 19:35 UTC

    1 removed passage (8 words). No rule matched the changed words; review the source for its effect.

  • 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 2026

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Sources read 26 Oct 04:30 UTC · 271 of 271 readable · 269 fully read · documentation 464/464 current