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    Posted on July 26, 2016 at 09:48 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    I just bumped into this document, which gives a 33-page list of the “telemetry” data that admins can tap into, to see how their monitored systems are behaving. According to the description:

    The Windows Customer Data Opt-in (CDO) is an optional setting for enterprise-managed devices that instructs Windows to gather device-specific telemetry data. By configuring CDO, enterprises will be able to gather information from their Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 8.1 devices about apps, drivers, hardware configurations, and other engagement with the operating system to generate upgrade related insights. This document lists telemetry events, grouped by event area, and the fields within each event gathered by Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 through CDO for Upgrade Analytics.

    It isn’t clear what information is collected and sent to Microsoft’s servers if CDO is turned off, or if you have a machine that isn’t connected to a corporate network. There’s also no acknowledgement of the Customer Experience Improvement Program, which is mentioned in several of the (possibly) snooping patches we’ve seen for Win7 and 8.1. It’s highly likely that CEIP and CDO work independently of each other.

    It’d sure be nice if MS would give us a similar list for Win7 and 8.1 machines that are (a) fully patched and (b) have CEIP turned on or off.

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