Re:Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
by hendersoon on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:53PM
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Yes, this is called "delivery optimization" and it's on by default. By default, Windows Enterprise/Education only pull updates from Microsoft and the local domain, while Windows Home/Pro will also pull updates from other peers on the internet.
You can turn it off, or disable pulling from internet peers, but given the OP, who knows if MS actually respects that setting? I guess we have to roll the dice now.
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-windows-updat...
Re:Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
by glenneroo on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:07PM
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Maybe they changed it, but I just checked my fresh install of Pro build 1703 from MSDN and it was disabled.
Re:Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
by hendersoon on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:13PM
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Odd, their docs say it's on by default.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/update/w...
Re:Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
by glenneroo on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @01:39PM
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One of the handful of tools I installed from Ninite must have turned it off then. After a quick look, I'm guessing it was Classic Start Menu.
Re:Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
by nthcolumn on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:13PM
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malware delivery optimization hehe
Re:Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
by Spooky23 on Sunday May 21, 2017 @06:55PM
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Windows has done this forever with enabled apps like SCCM. I think it was released in 2008.
It allowed us to remove hundreds of local depot servers unless there was an SLA on reimaging.
Re:Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
by hendersoon on Sunday May 21, 2017 @07:05PM
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Yes, but you needed to configure that. This comes enabled by default. And on Windows Home/Pro, it downloads updates from third-parties on the internet too.
Re:Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings
by jhasse on Monday May 22, 2017 @06:28AM
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> This comes enabled by default. And on Windows Home/Pro, it downloads updates from third-parties on the internet too.
What's the problem? I guess it still receives the hashes signed from Microsoft.
This way each Windows computer does not have to connect to Microsoft to download, e.g., the Windows 10 "upgrade". It seems like this could also be used to evade attempts by users to block such downloads by blocking Microsoft IP addresses.
Windows 10 could propagate itself through a network of Windows computers, like a ...
Seriously, how does this work in pratice?
Windows 10 does peer-to-peer file sharing automatically without requiring any user interaction?