Daily Archives: November 12, 2020

• The early view of November updates – we’re still at DefCon 2

  Posted on November 12, 2020 at 12:06 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  I’ve posted up my early take on the November updates in Computerworld.

  More details and the Patch charts and listings will be coming up in the Askwoody newsletter out this weekend.  Stay tuned.

  Windows Patches/Security MS-DEFCON 2, November 2020 Black Tuesday, Patch Lady Posts

• Blocking telemetry in Office 365

  Posted on November 12, 2020 at 08:51 CST by Susan Bradley • Comment in the Forums

  From https://twitter.com/milenkowski/status/1326865844215934979

  A hint for Office 365 Telemetry: Setting the undocumented (not officially supported) regvalue HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\office\common\clienttelemetry\DisableTelemetry to 1 (DWORD) disables the Office Telemetry module. This reduces the output of telemetry data.

  He also links to his report on the impact of the Office privacy settings (the diagnostic data levels) on the output of diagnostic data by Office.

  ERNW GmbH was tasked by the German Federal Office for Information Security (orig., ger., Bundesamt fur
  Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI)) with analyzing the output of telemetry data from Microsoft
  Office and provide recommendations on how to deactivate or minimize it (see Section 1.1 and Section 1.2).

  Office Patch Lady Posts