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You can turn off Windows telemetry. Forced updates is a good thing. We want fast updates when a vulnerability is found. We see so many unpatched servers online

You can turn off Windows telemetry. Forced updates is a good thing. We want fast updates when a vulnerability is found. We see so many unpatched servers online getting pwnd and enslaved into botnets, and this is the only solution.

morrbo 7y ago
I'd prefer to manage my server myself. But thanks for your input about randomly rebooting my server and losing work being "the only solution". Also you can't fully disable telemetry. Even in server 2016 with sconfig you can set it to not be fully off. On windows 10 home edition I don't believe you really have the option without resorting to stuff like shutup10. Honestly your line of thinking is dangerous and misinformed.
- mips_avatar 7y ago
  You can use a raspberry pi or a configurable router to grab telemetry packets and kill them. Also you honestly want to take the quality updates (security and minor bug fixes) every day someone figures out a new intel exploit and you really want to get the patches to fix those. The feature updates take forever but Microsoft announced they will only push a feature update once your OS is approaching EOS.
  - morrbo 7y ago
    "You can use a raspberry pi or a configurable router to grab telemetry packets and kill them" is not the same as "you can turn off windows telemetry" like the guy i was replying to. I agree about the security updates. However, the point i was trying to make is that accepting windows' bullshit "you WILL have an update, you WILL give us telemetry, you WILL reboot your computer" is bullshit. Having those defaults, albeit i don't agree with them, but with an easy way to disable them so that even moderate power users can completely block out anything they don't want to in any edition of windows is much more preferable to the "it's fine" attitude i was replying to originally. It's not fine. It sucks. Forced updates are not the same as auto updates, and they're sure as hell not a good thing IMO.
    - jjeaff 7y ago
      The forced updates are much easier to control on Windows Pro than Home. And frankly, if you are doing mission critical stuff that can't be interuoted, you shouldn't be using Home anyway.
jazzyk 7y ago
>You can turn off Windows telemetry. See, turning off telemetry (if it is even possible to turn it off fully) was implemented to be complex on purpose, so that most people can't do it and won't do it. But Microsoft can still trumpet to the world that "you can turn it off if you want".
- russh 7y ago
  "You can turn it off if you want. We will probably turn it back on in a future update, but you can turn it off again if you want."

morrbo 7y ago

I'd prefer to manage my server myself. But thanks for your input about randomly rebooting my server and losing work being "the only solution". Also you can't fully disable telemetry. Even in server 2016 with sconfig you can set it to not be fully off. On windows 10 home edition I don't believe you really have the option without resorting to stuff like shutup10. Honestly your line of thinking is dangerous and misinformed.

mips_avatar 7y ago
You can use a raspberry pi or a configurable router to grab telemetry packets and kill them. Also you honestly want to take the quality updates (security and minor bug fixes) every day someone figures out a new intel exploit and you really want to get the patches to fix those. The feature updates take forever but Microsoft announced they will only push a feature update once your OS is approaching EOS.
- morrbo 7y ago
  "You can use a raspberry pi or a configurable router to grab telemetry packets and kill them" is not the same as "you can turn off windows telemetry" like the guy i was replying to. I agree about the security updates. However, the point i was trying to make is that accepting windows' bullshit "you WILL have an update, you WILL give us telemetry, you WILL reboot your computer" is bullshit. Having those defaults, albeit i don't agree with them, but with an easy way to disable them so that even moderate power users can completely block out anything they don't want to in any edition of windows is much more preferable to the "it's fine" attitude i was replying to originally. It's not fine. It sucks. Forced updates are not the same as auto updates, and they're sure as hell not a good thing IMO.
  - jjeaff 7y ago
    The forced updates are much easier to control on Windows Pro than Home. And frankly, if you are doing mission critical stuff that can't be interuoted, you shouldn't be using Home anyway.

jazzyk 7y ago

>You can turn off Windows telemetry. See, turning off telemetry (if it is even possible to turn it off fully) was implemented to be complex on purpose, so that most people can't do it and won't do it. But Microsoft can still trumpet to the world that "you can turn it off if you want".

russh 7y ago
"You can turn it off if you want. We will probably turn it back on in a future update, but you can turn it off again if you want."