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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators
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Windows 10 for Enterprise Administrators

by Jeff Stokes, Manuel Singer, Richard Diver
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced
314 pages
8h 5m
English
Packt Publishing
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Microsoft telemetry

The advent of forced telemetry in Windows 10 caused a stir in the IT Pro and Enterprise administration space. For those unaware of this, Windows 10 keeps logs of many activities performed on it and ships those (anonymized) data points back to Microsoft for advanced analytics. Before you panic, let's explore what is collected and why.

What is collected?

  • Type of hardware being used
  • Applications installed and usage details
  • Reliability information on device drivers

Why is it collected?

Microsoft gives many reasons for collecting this data. The general takeaway here should be that Microsoft uses telemetry to do its best on the functionality of future versions as well as spending the resources to fix problems in a real-world ...

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