@ahmod333
Confirming this issue in a school environment.
Environment:
Windows 11 Pro 26H2 (build 26300.9711)
Microsoft Defender platform 4.18.26090.9
Veyon 4.11.x (also tested with latest 4.11.3 – same result)
Symptoms:
Screen monitoring and remote control work fine
Text message, open website, file transfer and run program don't work
veyon-worker.exe is not running; VeyonServer.log repeats every ~5 seconds:
[ERR] WindowsCoreFunctions: OpenProcess() 0
[WARN] FeatureWorkerManager: failed to start worker for feature QUuid("{8e997d84-ebb9-430f-8f72-d45d9821963d}")
Observations:
DefenderSessionHelper.exe runs in the user session and cannot be terminated even by an admin (Access denied).
A second PC with the identical Windows build and Defender platform (DefenderSessionHelper.exe also running) works fine, so it seems to depend on process enumeration order at logon.
Running "MpCmdRun.exe -RevertPlatform" fixed the problem immediately (no reboot needed); the text message was delivered right after.
Workaround applied: RevertPlatform + Set-MpPreference -PlatformUpdatesChannel Delayed.