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• Windows Server and System Center 2016 telemetry whitepaper

  Posted on May 7, 2016 at 17:53 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Microsoft pub on TechNet:

  This document provides our server and enterprise customers with the necessary information to make informed decisions about how to configure telemetry in their environments. It discusses telemetry as system data that is uploaded by the Connected User Experience and Telemetry component.  In this document we will focus on the telemetry data from Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016.  We discuss how we use it to troubleshoot problems and improve our products and services.  There are also some references to Windows 10 because the underlying infrastructure in Windows Server is the same.

  Tip o’ the Baker Street Irregulars hat to ch100.

  Windows News telemetry, Windows 10

• The inside scoop on Windows snooping

  Posted on February 23, 2016 at 09:33 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Microsoft won’t give us any decent documentation about its telemetry/snooping efforts. Ed Bott, on the other hand, has lots of contacts on the Windows team and has turned out an important piece on Windows security.

  Yes, I know that Ed writes books for Microsoft. Yes, I know he generally comes down on the side of the Redmondians. Nonetheless, if you read his article carefully, you’ll learn a lot.

  I know I did.

  I’d love to see a companion piece on Windows 7 and 8.1 snooping.

  Windows News snooping, telemetry

• Microsoft walks a thin line between Windows 10 telemetry and snooping

  Posted on January 7, 2016 at 13:00 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  And the situation’s becoming more dire as MS uses Win10 techniques in Win7 and 8.1.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows News snooping, telemetry

• Backporting Win10 telemetry tools to Win7 and 8.1

  Posted on October 1, 2015 at 09:19 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Susan Bradley has an excellent report on the privacy questions that have been dogging all of us — have the “recommended” updates Microsoft’s been pushing on Windows 7 and 8.1 led to increased snooping, without our knowledge or consent?

  Susan doesn’t come to a single, definitive conclusion — the communications are encrypted, so she can’t tell exactly what’s been sent — but she has plenty of observations of Win 7 and 8.1’s weird propensity to phone home.

  Well worth a read, in Windows Secrets Newsletter. (Free post, no subscription required.)

  I intend to adopt her recommendation, to turn off the Diagnostic Tracking System in Windows 7 and 8.1 , in the forthcoming change to the MS-DEFCON status.

  Windows Patches/Security Diagnostic Tracking System, telemetry, Windows 7, Windows 8.1
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