Microsoft is modernizing the activation experience for perpetual licenses. Beginning December 3, 2025, the traditional telephone-based product activation automation process has been moved from telephone to online. Customers will instead use the Product Activation Portal: Product Activation Portal The new digital workflow provides a more secure, reliable, and user‑friendly activation ...

These Digital Game Purchase Refund Terms cover Microsoft Store’s digital game offers, Xbox apps (excluding movies and tv apps), digital gaming bundle offers, and digital durable and consumable gaming offers, such as game season passes, virtual currency, and microtransactions, whether made available through the Xbox console device or on your PC (collectively “Digital Game Products”) only ...

Learn how to fix error PI101 so you can update your payment information on your Xbox One console.

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Summary Windows updates released on and after October 11, 2022, contain additional protections introduced by CVE-2022-38042. These protections intentionally prevent domain join operations from reusing an existing computer account in the target domain unless: The user attempting the operation is the creator of the existing account, or The computer was created by a member of domain ...

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Activation helps verify that your copy of Windows is genuine and hasn’t been used on more devices than the Microsoft Software License Terms allow. This article will help you troubleshoot and fix common activation errors in Windows. For help finding your product key, see Find your Windows product key. For troubleshooting and other info about updating Windows 11, see Windows Update: FAQ or ...

When you enable an add-in, it adds custom commands and new features to Microsoft 365 programs that help increase your productivity. Because add-ins can be used by attackers to do harm to your computer, you can use add-in security settings to help protect yourself.