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I am quite certain that the display name feklee is mine. Is there some way to check with which email account it is associated? Can I send a private message?
The profile (I am not allowed to post clickable links): http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Profile/feklee
- Edited by feklee2 Saturday, March 2, 2013 10:24 PM
Saturday, March 2, 2013 10:21 PM
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That means you have a different Live ID/Microsoft Account associated with the email that you used to sign up with the Feklee account.
Next steps:
- Sign out.
- Click Sign In.
- Enter the email address into the Microsoft Account window that you previously used in order to log into the Feklee account.
- If you don't remember the password, click that link. It will send a new password/link to your email address you used when creating the Feklee account.
Thanks!
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)
Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!- Proposed as answer by Yagmoth555MVP Wednesday, March 6, 2013 1:53 PM
- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:45 PM
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 5:43 PM -
Hi Feklee2,
feklee registered on Jan 17,2008 and now we can't locate his Windows Live ID associated with this profile from back end server.
and You've been verified to post link or image.
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- Proposed as answer by Naomi N Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:03 PM
- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:46 PM
Thursday, March 28, 2013 3:31 AM -
Hi feklee2,
it's the upgrade of online community system in 2011,which resulted in the lose of association between Live ID and the account: Feklee.
then we failed to retrieve the old account after the ID switch and had to revoke.thanks for your understanding.
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- Marked as answer by feklee2 Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:18 AM
Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:50 AM
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You can not send a private message but maybe admins can figure out the email.
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Monday, March 4, 2013 7:56 AM -
That means you have a different Live ID/Microsoft Account associated with the email that you used to sign up with the Feklee account.
Next steps:
- Sign out.
- Click Sign In.
- Enter the email address into the Microsoft Account window that you previously used in order to log into the Feklee account.
- If you don't remember the password, click that link. It will send a new password/link to your email address you used when creating the Feklee account.
Thanks!
Ed Price (a.k.a User Ed), SQL Server Customer Program Manager (Blog, Small Basic, Wiki Ninjas, Wiki)
Answer an interesting question? Create a wiki article about it!- Proposed as answer by Yagmoth555MVP Wednesday, March 6, 2013 1:53 PM
- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:45 PM
Tuesday, March 5, 2013 5:43 PM -
Thanks for the suggestion, Ed! But it's not that easy: I don't remember which email address it could have been. That's why I wrote: Is there some way to check with which email account it is associated?Wednesday, March 6, 2013 3:10 PM
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Hi,
You will have to guess your email and use the forget password IMO.
I'am not sure they can disclose personal information about a profile. (unless to a law agency with a 'mandat')
editing, It registred on: Jan 17, 2008, so it's the only public information that could help a little bit.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013 4:15 PM -
@yagmoth555, I hope you are wrong. If not, then I would like to see someone giving a definite statement concerning the issue, ideally providing a source or being an MS employee.Wednesday, March 6, 2013 7:27 PM
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For sure it would be too easy to hack. They can't be sure it's a legit demand in the end. What if a @Yagmoth556 come online to ask for my email ? After he could just try to brute force my password.
Can I ask why you want it back ? (except for the name) I ask because the profile does not have any achievement in it. If the liveid is associated with some eOpen's agreement, then ask your reseller on what address they associated the agrement number, and if you can't get back the password they can complete a form with you to transfer it to another email/liveid, but it take like 1 month to do in the minimum.
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Thursday, March 7, 2013 2:33 AM -
What if a @Yagmoth556 come online to ask for my email?
Having the possibility to send a message to the email address associated with the name would be sufficient. It's not necessary to fully disclose the email address in order for me to check if it is one of those that I currently use. That's why I wrote in my question: Can I send a private message?
After he could just try to brute force my password.
I assume Microsoft has taken the necessary security measures against brute force attacks.
Can I ask why you want it back? (except for the name)
I don't like it when things are broken (just an assumption so far, of course).
Thursday, March 7, 2013 12:40 PM -
Hi Feklee2,
feklee registered on Jan 17,2008 and now we can't locate his Windows Live ID associated with this profile from back end server.
and You've been verified to post link or image.
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- Proposed as answer by Naomi N Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:03 PM
- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Tuesday, April 16, 2013 11:46 PM
Thursday, March 28, 2013 3:31 AM -
feklee registered on Jan 17,2008 and now we can't locate his Windows Live ID associated with this profile from back end server.
Thanks for checking, Pan!
and You've been verified to post link or image.
I don't understand this sentence. Could you elaborate? What link or image are you refering to?
- Edited by feklee2 Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:12 PM
Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:11 PM -
and You've been verified to post link or image.
I don't understand this sentence. Could you elaborate? What link or image are you refering to?
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Friday, March 29, 2013 2:54 AM -
I conclude: The problem is due to a database/software error in the past.
No surprise here. ;-)
- Edited by feklee2 Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:49 AM
Wednesday, April 3, 2013 2:31 PM -
Microsoft doesn't plan to fix the apparent inconsistency in the user database? (quote from Pan: "can't locate his Windows Live ID associated with this profile from back end server")
- Edited by feklee2 Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:54 AM
Thursday, April 18, 2013 10:53 AM -
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Issue is solved. It seems like I have to accept using feklee2 as display name. What happened:
- Got an email from Microsoft: "We’re contacting you for confirmation that if you know this user: feklee2, who claimed that this profile <feklee> should be his own."
- After confirming that feklee2 (me) is the same person as feklee (me), I asked for both accounts to be merged under the display name feklee.
- Microsoft said that they cannot merge. They proposed: "We can help you retrieve the Feklee profile under this ID: fe…@…, while the activities associated to your current profile: Feklee2 will be lost."
- I agreed to the proposal.
- Microsoft retrieved feklee for me: "Now you're able to log in as feklee with <fe…@…>."
- Logging in worked, but I couldn't access the forums anymore: "Server Error in '/Forums' Application."
- Microsoft told me that they have to revert back to feklee2, which I agreed to.
Chaos behind the scenes…
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 5:30 PM -
Hi feklee2,
it's the upgrade of online community system in 2011,which resulted in the lose of association between Live ID and the account: Feklee.
then we failed to retrieve the old account after the ID switch and had to revoke.thanks for your understanding.
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- Marked as answer by feklee2 Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:18 AM
Thursday, May 16, 2013 6:50 AM -
Thanks for clarification, Pan!Thursday, May 16, 2013 9:19 AM