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Disable collection of Edge browsing data for Desktop Analytics

This script configures Microsoft Edge to prevent it from sending your browsing history data to Desktop Analytics. This browsing data can include information from either your intranet or internet history, or both. When you use Microsoft Edge for browsing, it can collect and send your browsing history to Desktop Analytics, a Microsoft service that helps enterprises to analyze and improve their IT environment. If this setting is disabled, Microsoft Edge does not send any browsing history data, ther...

Disable diagnostics data processing for Business cloud

This script controls whether diagnostic data from your device is processed by Windows Update for Business cloud. If enabled, the script can enhance privacy by ensuring that diagnostic data from your device is not processed by the Windows Update for Business cloud (WufB), an update management service provided by Microsoft. This service typically helps businesses manage updates on their devices efficiently. But if privacy is a concern, you can opt to disable it. The policy is applicable to devices...

Disable processing of Desktop Analytics

This script ensures that Microsoft does not process Windows diagnostic data from your device. When activated, it modifies a setting known as the Group Policy object on your device. This object is a set of policies that determine how your system operates. The script disables a policy related to Microsoft's Desktop Analytics service. This service is designed to provide insights into the health and usage of your devices but may involve processing diagnostic data. By disabling this policy, the scrip...

Disable sending device name in Windows diagnostic data

This script enhances privacy by ensuring that the name of your device is anonymized in any diagnostic data collected by Microsoft Desktop Analytics. In other words, instead of your actual device name, "Unknown" will appear in the data. Since the release of Windows 10, version 1803, the device name is not included in the diagnostic data by default. This script guarantees that this privacy-enhancing measure remains in place. When implemented, it changes a specific registry setting, `AllowDeviceNam...

Disable Update Compliance processing of diagnostics data

Update Compliance is a service provided by Microsoft hosted in Azure, which uses Windows diagnostic data. This service doesn't meet the US Government community compliance (GCC) requirements, and is utilized by both Desktop Analytics and Azure Update Management. This script is designed to disable the Update Compliance processing of diagnostic data on your device. When this script is run, it modifies the system registry to prevent diagnostic data from your device being processed by Update Complian...