Interesting issue with Windows 10 update/restart and PiHole

General
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My Windows 10 desktop PC decided it needed to do some kind of an update today (as it does from time-to-time). The restart seemed to be taking forever (the spinning wheel). Out of boredom, I took a look at my PiHole console and I noticed that the machine that was trying to restart after the update had several domains blocked - they were sub-domains under Microsoft.com so I decided to unblock them. When I did, the computer almost immediately completed the restart and came back to life.

I just thought I would pass this information along.
Here are the three sites that were blocked:
v10.events.data.microsoft.com
watson.telemetry.microsoft.com
settings-win.data.microsoft.com

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Hello @ECM56

just to enhance the awareness of Windows 10 communication. I link two documents from Microsoft about what does what do for Windows 10 Pro 1903/1909 and Windows 10 Ent. 1903/1909.

Win10 Pro. -> Windows 10, version 1903, connection endpoints for non-Enterprise editions - Windows Privacy | Microsoft Docs

Win10 Ent. -> Connection endpoints for Windows 10 Enterprise, version 1903 - Windows Privacy | Microsoft Docs

Best regards
Val.

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Great information! Thank you!

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Do we need to white list these addresses?

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Only if you need specific functions of Windows 10.

On the list you have the applications or functions that will be limited if blacklisted. :wink:

Best regards
Val.

P.S. I did a little bit of work on creating this file and want to share this to the pi-hole community - Since I own a Windows 10 Ent. License the lists will reflect the list provided by Microsoft:

(File will be available for 14 Days thx to MediaFire...)