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Fingerprint Scanning not working in win11

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This title is not totally truthful. The issue turned out to be nothing to do with the scanner or windows 11 really. For me, it was because of the domain login for users. After a lot of funking around, I eventually figured that this was an issue with domain login and the use of using a pin or other type of login. The laptops that I was configuring are Dell Latitude 5420's, which are nice little units. I had reconfigured them for use here I work, but after I handed it over to a user, they asked about using the fingerprint login for their laptop. I went through to the accounts page:  Settings > Accounts > Sign-in options And found that all the options for doing this type of login was "This option is currently unavailable".  If I clicked on the login method I wanted to use, I also got the error "Something went wrong. Try again later." and the option "Sign in with Windows, apps, and services" and its button "Set up" greyed out, so it couldn...