Avid Linux user and haven’t used Windows in years.
I’ve tried multiple browsers, disabled extensions, desktop and phone, different IPs even different ISPs (cell data vs home cable), even tried spoofing browser user agent. I’ve exhausted everything, at this point I’m more interested in why this is happening rather than actually getting the stupid ISO. This is sketchy.
“We are unable to complete your request at this time. Some users, entities and locations are banned from using this service. For this reason, leveraging anonymous or location hiding technologies when connecting to this service is not generally allowed.”
Happened to me a while ago but then it stopped. They are probably implementing some stupid wacky way to block automated downloads and being malicious as they always are they might be trying to force people to log in their account so they can collect the data.
I have never had a problem downloading ISO’s of Windows or VS etc. from Microsoft.
I am always logged into my Microsoft account when doing so.
If you are looking for Windows 10 or 11, and a USB installer will work, then use the Media Creation Tool instead of an ISO.
Well I was able to download windows 11 iso just fine. If you can’t figure out why you can’t download it I can put up on on google drive for you to try there!
Never before tried using their download site while logged in. Didn’t even know that was a thing. Tried it, still not letting me. Can we get multiple people to post and confirm the legit filename:SHA256 to confirm an unofficial download source. Still want to know why this is even happening to begin with.
There is a script on the site that tries to communicate with vlscppe.microsoft.com (h-microsoft.online-metrix.net), among others, in the case of lack of connectivity / name resolution, an error pops up and it cannot be downloaded.
Error
We are unable to complete your request at this time. Some users, entities and locations are banned from using this service. For this reason, leveraging anonymous or location hiding technologies when connecting to this service is not generally allowed. If you believe that you encountered this problem in error, please try again. If the problem persists you may contact Microsoft Support – Contact Us page for assistance. Refer to message code 715-123130 and 365d0f84-a3f5-482c-bad2-b423d1ff8816.
If you are using something for dns filtering like Pi-Hole then whitelist vlscppe.microsoft.com, and start downloading the ISO.
You will also see h-microsoft.online-metrix.net in the logs
When you have proper connectivity to this you will have a normal trouble free download.
There is no specific block for you, for location, for anything… It is the effect of blocking communication between the user and a specific address, which apparently is important for MS. Telemetry or protection against “something”.
This is good info, thanks much. I suspected there was some tracker doing shenanigans. Which is why I tried multiple browsers and even disabled extensions/adblock. Now I see the vlscppe.microsoft.com connections as you’ve pointed out, though, they’re not blocked. Still no success. Can anyone using Brave Browser test this? I would assume at the very least it wont work with uBlock enabled, how about Brave Shields?
Not good… I did tests earlier and on my side it is the lack of proper connectivity for this domain that causes this error.
dig vlscppe.microsoft.com ?
You should see one “CNAME” and one “A”. If you don’t see it, you’re sure you don’t have DNS filtering anywhere? Maybe try changing dns servers for a while.
Try disabling absolutely every addons in your browser…
Strange behavior, probably something else is not working as MS planned. All I see on my side is a script and connectivity to this domain… Nothing else causes this error.
I would rather exclude the actual BAN because you said that you checked from different IP/ISP/geo… if you use an account, logout, and others also say that they have a problem, so you can exclude an individual case specific only to you.
For me, both on Firefox and Chromium, it works whenever it does not block on the firewall and adds to the white list on dns. Just block one of the two and that error will pop up. It just seems that your situation is different…
Wondering if its a good idea to download off a public library, starbucks or something the like. Then just do a sha256 to verify. You have to use a normie browser with no adblocks.
It’s pathetic that MS does this to keep people from not blocking their ad/metric business. This will surely backfire due to people going to alternate downloads sources.
