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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So here is a funny technical situation... we have a GDPR require to delete someone's identity. However, there's nothing identifiable in the account. We have zero idea who the person is. The GDPR requires that we have proof that the request is coming from the person in question and not just someone who guessed their password or whatever. But we don't know the name, country, gender, age, password, email, employer, or anything of the person in question. It's completely anonymous.

While there's no PI to take down, it's an interesting situation that there is no means of making the request for data that is already anonymous by the nature of it being anonymous.

If there is nothing, not even IP or network or computer info to link to a person, it doesn't seem like GDPR then.

It's not, it's just GDPR-like. And we are coming up with a compromise as best as we can. It's just an interesting situation to have something like a GDPR, for anonymous data, because while the data might not seem anonymous, to the system it actually is. If it was posted recently, we might have something like an IP log, but it's not current, and the logs aren't kept. So there isn't even that!

Sounds 100% not GDPR or even related

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

So here is a funny technical situation... we have a GDPR require to delete someone's identity. However, there's nothing identifiable in the account. We have zero idea who the person is. The GDPR requires that we have proof that the request is coming from the person in question and not just someone who guessed their password or whatever. But we don't know the name, country, gender, age, password, email, employer, or anything of the person in question. It's completely anonymous.

While there's no PI to take down, it's an interesting situation that there is no means of making the request for data that is already anonymous by the nature of it being anonymous.

If there is nothing, not even IP or network or computer info to link to a person, it doesn't seem like GDPR then.

I use the same popup blocker in every web browser, even Edge, and it blocks everything. I've not come across any weird issues like that otherwise.

Have you tried this one?
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/ublock-origin/odfafepnkmbhccpbejgmiehpchacaeak

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Lots and lots of KQL the past week. Good stuff actually.

King's Quest Live?

No idea what KQL is.

Close, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-explorer/kusto/query/

Lots and lots of KQL the past week. Good stuff actually.

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got home from the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Definitely recommend!

got any photos? I'd love to see it. What state is in ??

Got a lot of 'em, but it's late and time to get to bed. Here's one awhile of the nice desert scenery and mountains in the background we found on the way home:

Am I the only one that suddenly turns into a 5 year old when I see this picture?

Oh I just noticed the cactus in the picture now!

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got home from the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Definitely recommend!

got any photos? I'd love to see it. What state is in ??

Got a lot of 'em, but it's late and time to get to bed. Here's one awhile of the nice desert scenery and mountains in the background we found on the way home:

You're a bloody idiot

Arizona I'm guessing.

Oh it's in Southern California, about 1.5 hour drive from us.

@siringo said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just got home from the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Definitely recommend!

got any photos? I'd love to see it. What state is in ??

Got a lot of 'em, but it's late and time to get to bed. Here's one awhile of the nice desert scenery and mountains in the background we found on the way home:

Just got home from the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Definitely recommend!

@Pete-S said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:

@Obsolesce said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:

To save you some time looking through that crAppy code, it basically comes down to two lines, 626 and 640.

I ended up doing something like this:

# apps to remove
$apps = 
   '*549981C3F5F10_*',
   '*GetHelp_*',
   '*Getstarted_*',
   '*Microsoft3DViewer_*',
   '*MicrosoftOfficeHub_*',
   '*MicrosoftSolitaireCollection_*',
   '*MixedReality.Portal_*',
   '*Office.OneNote_*',
   '*People_*',
   '*SkypeApp_*',
   '*Wallet_*',
   '*windowscommunicationsapps_*',
   '*WindowsFeedbackHub_*',
   '*WindowsMaps_*',
   '*Xbox*',
   '*YourPhone_*',
   '*Zune*';

foreach ($app in $apps) {
   Get-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online | where {$_.PackageName -like $app} | Remove-AppxProvisionedPackage -Online 
   Get-AppxPackage -Name $app | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers
}

Code needs to run as Administrator.
Removes packages for new users as well as users already on the system.
Windows shouldn't re-install them when you get updates.

Looks good.

That said, if the devices are managed with MDM for example, it's typically best practice to Uninstall all that kind of apps for the user through a user assigned script or required app... instead of at the image or predeployment level.

@Dashrender said in PS to download latest microsip version:

@JaredBusch said in PS to download latest microsip version:

@Dashrender said in PS to download latest microsip version:

I just installed it on a test machine with chocolatey - it installed it into the local admin profile - so any normal non admin user can't use it.

You can run chocolatey without admin rights just fine.

It warns you, but that is because most software is designed to be installed with admin rights in the windows world.

It seems that Microsip does not require that, so run chocolatey as the user itself.

interesting - something else to test then.

will the choco update scripts catch both admin and non admin installed items?

It depends on whether or not it was installed with elevated privileges and whether or not a given software is installed to a location that requires elevated privileges to modify.

@Dashrender said in PS to download latest microsip version:

I just installed it on a test machine with chocolatey - it installed it into the local admin profile - so any normal non admin user can't use it.

You can use chocolatey to get the current version and download url. I don't install apps from chocolatey corporately, but I use it to obtain current versions of software and/or download links.

@Dashrender said in PS to download latest microsip version:

Any thoughts on how I can fix these?

Chocolatey

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Obsolesce said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

based on the word voxel is the world completely buildable and detroyable?

Not in the same way Teardown is, (another awesome game by the way), but you can build/destroy.

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

based on the word tycoon is it a sim?

Yes, along the lines of a Sim City type game, but more fun.

I had time later and looked at the steam store. looks interesting.

I actually had it in my Steam wishlist for like a year or something. I had constantly ignored it because the name doesn't do it justice, and never really bothered to look much. I had added it back when I was playing more Teardown and searched for other voxel based games out of curiosity. I wish I would have looked at it closer a long time ago.

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

based on the word voxel is the world completely buildable and detroyable?

Not in the same way Teardown is, (another awesome game by the way), but you can build/destroy.

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

based on the word tycoon is it a sim?

Yes, along the lines of a Sim City type game, but more fun.

Voxel Tycoon, I highly recommend checking it out. It's tons of fun! Be warned, huge time waster.

@Pete-S said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:

@Obsolesce said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:

@Pete-S said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:

I'm trying to clean up some unneeded Windows 10 apps. But I'm not sure about what method to use.

Does anyone know the difference between using:

DISM /Online /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.WindowsCamera_2018.826.98.0...

versus using:

Get-AppxPackage *camera* | Remove-AppxPackage

Dism is an exe, the other is a PowerShell cmdlet.

I don't recall which one, but I think the verb-appxprovisionedpackage is more similar to dism?

I don't remember anymore, it's been like 6 years now since I dove I to it when I wrote the Win10 crApp Remover.

But here's the docs

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/appx/remove-appxpackage?view=windowsserver2022-ps

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dism/remove-appxprovisionedpackage?view=windowsserver2022-ps

Awesome thanks!

Links are great, it looks like there is all the information I need.

I can see that you've put in an impressive amount of work making your Win10 crApp remover. I'll take a closer look at how you disable and uninstall things in your code.

To save you some time looking through that crAppy code, it basically comes down to two lines, 626 and 640.

@Pete-S said in DISM /Remove-ProvisionedAppxpackage vs Remove-AppxPackage?:

I'm trying to clean up some unneeded Windows 10 apps. But I'm not sure about what method to use.

Does anyone know the difference between using:

DISM /Online /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:Microsoft.WindowsCamera_2018.826.98.0...

versus using:

Get-AppxPackage *camera* | Remove-AppxPackage

Dism is an exe, the other is a PowerShell cmdlet.

I don't recall which one, but I think the verb-appxprovisionedpackage is more similar to dism?

I don't remember anymore, it's been like 6 years now since I dove I to it when I wrote the Win10 crApp Remover.

But here's the docs

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/appx/remove-appxpackage?view=windowsserver2022-ps

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/dism/remove-appxprovisionedpackage?view=windowsserver2022-ps