AFAIK MSMG Toolkit removes Telemetry components entirely (advanced component removal). CU's are still being offered though via WU, but installation fails in final stage (after reboot): [HRESULT = 0x800736b3 - ERROR_SXS_ASSEMBLY_NOT_FOUND]
@MSMG Welcome back! I'm glad to hear from you and very exited about upcoming updates! I found a bug, (using Win10_1803_English_x64) I deleted all WIM indexes except Windows 10 Pro Workstation N, followed the readme (KB4284848 17134.137), and did not remove defender or telemetry. At the end of the process I attempted to convert the WIM to an ESD as usual, but whenever I typed 2 for convert I would get menu 3 for integrate. I'm not mistaken, it really does do this. I don't understand why since I never had this issue before. I would also like to suggest the removal templates be updated and split (EG: RS1/RS2/RS3/RS4) so time isn't wasted on skipping non-present components.
Yes but when removing telemetry some tools configure the option to send data (telemetry) in the Settings app as Security and that prevented the WU from offering the CU in RS3 in the last tests I did a while ago. In older versions MSMG Toolkit did this, I do not know currently.
Yes the order was correct But I found out that I was using the older SS - KB4338853 instead of KB4343669, will try with the new one.
I haven't added telemetry removal for RS3 yet, only with the next version it's available and even for RS3 the WU - drivers not offering bug is still there.
MSMG you are the guy for years, while M $ FT does not review what you are doing with your customers and system buyers, only you have knowledge to get rid of crap out of politics or things like that thank you so much since Windows 8 God always help you and Deserves a lot your huge intenligencia and sense of sharing with us here sorry for my bad English thanks for 10000 years
I'm having problems with CU's with all the versions of the toolkit since 7.0, with RS3 and RS4 images (spanish ones, tested always with Education and Enterprise editions), integrating the CU's before and/or after component removal, removing or not Telemetry and etc. After installation, CU's are not offered through Windows Update, and if offered, they fail to install.
Well, so far I haven't got such issues, I always do my tests with pro image, may be I should tryout a Education/Enterprise image to see if any errors are occured, will test when I do get time. Right now I did few more tests with the W10 Pro RS4 x64 Image and will be posting the result next to this post, checkout the CU is installing through WU.
For RS3 I had tested with NTLite, but for RS1 (LTSB) I had tested with its toolkit in an old version that still used the dism method. In RS1 I had no problems. But this setting only affects Enterprise/Education editions anyway. However in RS4 Enterprise/Education will probably have the same behavior as in RS3 (configuring telemetry as Security causes Windows Update to not find updates). That was my reasoning.
I have en-gb (British English) Enterprise as ISO images for both 32 and 64-bit if you would like me to upload them somewhere, just tell me where. If a few minutes of my time helps you save some of your time to do other things, I am all for helping you out.