Due to the Data Privacy regulations in our Country we have been asked by management to disable Microsoft Office Pro Plus, 365, 2016 from sending Telemetry Data to Microsoft so i did the following as stated on the official website https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/compat/manage-the-privacy-of-data-monitored-by-telemetry-in-office .
So I downloaded ADMX templates > Configuration > Administrative Templates > Microsoft Office 2016 > Telemetry Dashboard and did the following in order to disable Telemetry Agent policy settings that disable logging
TO STOP LOGGING BY USING THE GROUP POLICY SETTINGS
Setting
Turn on telemetry data collection
Set this setting to Disabled to turn off data collection.
Turn on data uploading for Office Telemetry Agent
Set this setting to Disabled to stop uploading data to the shared folder.
According to Microsoft if logging is deactivated folder this %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Telemetry folder does not exit. I double checked on one of our test clients and truly that path doesnt exist.
Nevertheless my attention was then drawn to another location %localappdata%\Microsoft\Office\OTele. Check out this article https://www.gruppenrichtlinien.de/artikel/office-20162019365-telemetrie-deaktivieren-disabletelemetry/
This location also logs some kind of Office Telemetry Data and it gets populated anytime office is active. Is this location relevant? If so how do we stop it from logging office Data?
