Disable Microsoft Office 2019 telemetry

[tomasz1986]

Disable the following scheduled tasks responsible for scanning and uploading user data to Microsoft.

Office ClickToRun Service Monitor: This task monitors the state of your Microsoft Office ClickToRunSvc and sends crash and error logs to Microsoft.

OfficeTelemetryAgentLogOn2016: This task initiates Office Telemetry Agent, which scans and uploads usage and error information for Office solutions when a user logs on to the computer.

OfficeTelemetryAgentFallBack2016: This task initiates the background task for Office Telemetry Agent, which scans and uploads usage and error information for Office solutions.

Signed-off-by: Tomasz Wilczyński twilczynski@naver.com

[tomasz1986]

Strictly speaking, Office is not a part of Windows, so I will definitely understand if you decide not to include the scripts related to it in Win10-Initial-Setup-Script. However, Office is used and installed together with Windows in many environments, and I believe that having their telemetry bound together will be useful for quite a large number of users.

Also, do not be misled by "2016" in the names, as these are the tasks created by Office 2019 upon its installation, probably due to the fact that Office 2019 itself is just an extension of Office 2016.

[ghost]

I often use similar tweak (it also contains GPOs and it's Office 2013-2019 compatible). It's one of the tweaks in my separate library module designed as an extension for this project, but I haven't polished and released it yet, as I'm kinda waiting for version 4, so I wouldn't do things (i.e. adopting to project's conventions etc.) twice. :) But if @Disassembler0 would say he's not gonna make it let's say in the next few months or even at all, I might look at it sooner.

[Disassembler0]

I'm definitely not gonna make in next few months, @r3incarnat0r, so feel free to go ahead.

And yes, initially I was gonna reject it because Office aren't part of Win10, but I guess if we make it as completely separate tweak library, I'll probably survive it.

[tomasz1986]

I have no objections to having the tweaks related to other Microsoft products listed in a separate library.

For now, I have not been able to find any decent open source scripts or tools dealing with them, hence I pushed this commit here. They are often included either in much larger scripts, which are usually not documented, not maintained, and very messy (unlike this one), or are a part of various closed source tools, which I am not willing to use.

Also, right now these entries are limited to Office 2019 (and possibly 2016), but if they are to be included in the separate tweak library, then I will try to update them to cover all versions of MS Office with telemetry.

[rnc]

Out of curiosity what is the status of the PR ?

[undergroundwires]

@tomasz1986 Thanks for this awesome tweak 🙏🏿. Took a a while and googling before I found this PR. I integrated it in privacy.sexy if that's ok, I'm currently working on reverting toggle functionality once it's done I'll add way to enable it as well.

Btw I couldn't not find any well-maintained & open source tool dealing with applications on OS either and that's why I built it. Feel free to check out for more telemetry disabling for applications, and also I'm accepting PR refugees if anyone wants to contribute anything 😊