Mass Amounts of requests from Microsoft

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I saw that 2000 requests for Microsoft's IPv6 connection test in 13 hours, but most are over ~ 30 minutes. There are only 2 Windows devices on the network right now and only one that is being used actively, it is not my Xbox since it is powered off. Please tell me why this is and what I can do about it, thank you!

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Im also having large amounts of requests from www.msftconnecttest.com.

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It's a Microsoft connection test, it is what the OS uses to say if the device is online or not.

These links should provide more info.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftedge/forum/all/msftconnecttest/a95137f7-6d76-4ae3-8f93-d563411f6097

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-US/troubleshoot/windows-client/networking/internet-explorer-edge-open-connect-corporate-public-network#ncsi-active-probes-and-the-network-status-alert

On the second link if you scroll through, there is a box with details on Group Policy changes that may help control this behaviour. Quick Link to it here.