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PEER_E_PRIVACY_DECLINED
Which peer contract was rejected
PEER_E_PRIVACY_DECLINED — HRESULT 0x80637004 means that the user declined the People Near Me privacy prompt, so the collaboration presence feature was not enabled. The relevant API boundary includes PeerCollabSignIn and People Near Me privacy flow.
Peer Collaboration provides serverless presence, contacts, endpoint subscriptions and invitations. Its operations depend on an interactive user context, explicit sign-in scopes and firewall/privacy consent.
Minimum diagnostic packet
| Item | Evidence |
|---|---|
| Raw input | Preserve consent UI outcome, requested sign-in scope, current sign-in options, user profile and whether an application attempted to bypass the prompt. |
Focused reproduction
Repeat sign-in only through the documented interactive consent flow in a disposable test account.
Why the comparison code is different
PEER_E_FW_DECLINED differs because privacy-declined concerns enabling People Near Me presence; firewall-declined concerns permission to enable network exceptions.
Recommended change
Respect the decline and require the user to opt in through the Windows privacy/firewall UI; do not alter consent registry state programmatically.
Technical references
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