In summary:
- PCWorld reports Microsoft has discontinued the Support and Recovery Assistant (SaRA) command-line tool from Windows 11 due to security risks.
- SaRA was previously used for troubleshooting Microsoft 365, Office, Outlook, and Windows issues before its removal with March 10th updates.
- Users should transition to the ‘Get Help’ command-line tool as Microsoft’s recommended replacement for SaRA’s troubleshooting capabilities.
In recent years, Microsoft has discontinued a number of command-line tools, and now it’s time for yet another one to be retired.
This time, it’s the Support and Recovery Assistant (SaRA), a tool that’s been used for troubleshooting Microsoft 365, Office, Outlook, and Windows, among other Microsoft products and services. The removal announcement was published on this support page.
According to Microsoft, the tool may pose a security risk and has therefore been removed from Windows 11 as part of the updates rolled out to the public on March 10th. Learn more about the March update that fixed over 80 security vulnerabilities.
If you’re still relying on SaRA, Microsoft advises switching over to the Get Help command-line tool, which is the recommended replacement as SaRA is deprecated. The support page has FAQs that will get you started on Get Help and face you in the right direction.
This article originally appeared on our sister publication PC för Alla and was translated and localized from Swedish.
Author: Mikael Markander, Contributor, PCWorld
Mikael writes news across all our consumer tech categories. He has previously worked with Macworld, but today mainly writes for our sister sites PC för Alla and M3. Mikael has a firm grasp on which gadgets are released, and what is happening with the streaming services and the latest AI tools.