pihole recently started blocking ecs.office.com. Any idea what's triggering it?
pihole recently started blocking ecs.office.com. Any idea what's triggering it?
As the title says. I'm just curious what's triggering it. There is no MS Office installed. Happens as soon i start a windows10 pc and it's "packed" into svchost. Any idea?
"Enhanced Configuration Service (ECS) ECS provides Microsoft the ability to reconfigure Office installations without the need for you to redeploy Office. It's used to control the gradual rollout of features or updates, while the impact of the rollout is monitored from diagnostic data being collected."
Given how office/ai is being baked into the OS, its probably something to do with windows updates. Within updates there are advanced options and one of the tickboxes is for other Microsoft products. My guess would be that
That's how far i got too, maybe it's the ms-defender?? thingy since i recently uninstalled mwb-antivirus. What bothers me is the svchost. Updates are paused and every checkbox is off, this machine goes online very rarely.
With MS you never know. They are pretty arrogant and aggressive about assuming you want things running in the background. Something you can try: Install ShutUp10 and look for things like Office Telemetry being turned on. You can switch these things off (permanently or temporarily, your choice) and see if that stops the traffic.
https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
(There are other ways to do the same thing but I've been using ShutUp10 for years and love it)
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve been trying to explore Linux distros after the windows snapshot announcement but the sheer variety and the hardware troubleshooting has really kept be from making the switch.
Get Win10 LTSC. It gets updates 2x/year, has very minimal bloat.
Then get O&O Shutup to reduce bloat even more.
And you can permanently license it using Microsoft's own scripts.
No it's Win that makes debugging and keeping a system clean a pain. Linux is peace of mind compared to MS. Just go with Kubuntu for a desktop-pc (imo).
installed OO for years here too and everything switched to green except disable app access to file system, smart-screen and mic...
I'm pretty aggressive about switching things off, too. I will never use OneDrive, for example.
O&O soft is nice, but even better this one to tame Windows
https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer
From O&O Soft I use sometimes O&O FileDirect, that is a really cool app.
you're running a closed source OS designed for spying and data collection.
Not sure about "designed", maybe evolved to be that way but not designed
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