![]() At the Security level, "Microsoft can’t tell whether an update successfully installed" so Windows Update will no doubt be broken.īasic includes everything in Security level, and is designed "to identify problems that can occur on a particular device hardware or software configuration" e.g. Required if you use Windows Update and want it to work. So even on Enterprise or future Server editions, unless you have WSUS or SCCM managing your updates (or want to run without updates ) you need Basic telemetry or higher.ġ) Basic: "gathers a limited set of info that’s critical for understanding the device and its configuration." Level 1, Basic, is required for Windows Update telemetry without which Windows Update will break. If you use Windows Defender, it will get anti-malware signatures, and send diagnostic information, User Account Control settings, UEFI settings, and IP address. If you use the Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT), its infection report will be sent and will contain information including device info and IP address. So a Windows install's telemetry settings is always under Microsoft's control, and is device specific. This collects "OS information, device id (used to identify what specific device is requesting settings) and device class (for example, whether the device is server or desktop)" and sends it to Microsoft, and in response receives a link and downloads its settings file from Microsoft’s servers. Oddly, setting to 1 via the above Group Policy does not change this value, which I still have not got to the bottom of.Ġ) Security: "gathers only telemetry info that’s required to keep Windows devices secure". In regedit, it's HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\DataCollection and a DWORD called DataCollection. The help in Group Policy Management Console says " value of 0 indicates that no telemetry data from OS components is sent to Microsoft", which is obviously not saying " value of 0 means that no telemetry data at all is sent to Microsoft" but might be read as such on a first glance at the long paragraph. ![]() If you choose 0 on non-enterprise versions, it is equivalent to choosing 1. You set the level via Computer Configuration->Administrative Templates->Windows Components->Data Collection and Preview Builds->Allow Telemetry which you set to Enabled and choose the level. Though "Security" is unavailable except on Enterprise, Education, Mobile Enterprise, or IoT Core. There are 4 telemetry levels which Windows 10 can be set to: Probably not all of it, as Microsoft is so keen to not roll out updates which might risk the reliability or compatibility of the Windows 7/8.1 platform Windows 10 telemetry is being backported to Windows 8.1 and Windows 7, so some of this might apply there. I have relied only on Microsoft for my information, so anyone who believes Microsoft will lie will gain nothing from this, and should IMO stop here (and probably stop using Microsoft products). An effort to state what Windows 10 telemetry actually does, which will hopefully be helpful to people given the amount of ill-informed crud posted about this topic.
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