Windows 10: Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Slow Build 17074.1002 - Jan. 11 Insider

Wynona said:

Fafhrd, I think each time you clean install (don't know if you have) your computer is given a new name; I've gone in and found that my desktop has several names. For some odd reason, Microsoft doesn't realize that this is the same machine they've given a few new names to.

Just my WAG...

Yes, the automatically generated name is different every time.

But you can pick a name and keep using that, changing it after install, and you won't have all those duplicates.

Brink, I was thinking the same, but I had issues using UUP, so I am going to wait awhile and see what comes next. Hoping for insider iso's to get up to date.

Henry

Wynona said:

Fafhrd, I think each time you clean install (don't know if you have) your computer is given a new name; I've gone in and found that my desktop has several names. For some odd reason, Microsoft doesn't realize that this is the same machine they've given a few new names to.

Just my WAG...

Hi Wynona, I know what computer names refer to which installation I've made on which machine, and I consider each installation a different system, even if it shares the same hardware etc., - it is just the alien Surface/Surface pro /Surface Book and XBox variants that do not belong to me that I am concerned about.

A few of my Installations are dead, as far as the hardware is concerned, but I am not prepared to delete devices with digital licenses linked to my MS account until I may be ready to transfer them to some other, more modern PC if I choose, if permissible.

Given that some of these spurious devices have got serial numbers, they most likely belong to some real people, and should not appear in my list of devices for my MS account. What if I were to delete them - would that affect the linking of their license to the account holder? I just don't know.

Is anyone else getting devices that are unknown to them on their MSA devices page?

I tried to report it to MSAccount security, but for some reason the Capcha verification would not work, so it threw me out of the online report on the 3rd attempt.
Here's what I wrote:


My Microsoft Account Devices page:
Sign in to your Microsoft account


is showing several spurious devices not owned by me, which seem to change if I revisit the page from different PCs or Windows installations.
These have included:
3x Surface Pros,
2x Surface Pro 4s,
Surface Book - 256GB i5 8GB with GPU (Serial No. 018331554857)
Surface Book 2 - 13.5 in. 512GB i7 16GB with GPU
Xbox One S - 500GB (Serial No. 092055763848)
XBox 360 E (Serial No. 405747141600) ,
XBox 360 S (Serial No.033301414009),
XBox One (Serial No. 225431444048),
Xbox 360 Arcade (Serial No. 516526393605)


Since some of these devices have serial Nos. associated, you should be able to identify them to find exactly where the data is leaking from.


I obviously am concerned what data pertaining to my MSA is being leaked to other MSA holders?

If my MSA has become corrupted in some way I would like it fixed.

Kari said:

I know quite a few of you fellow geeks use UUP Dump Miniserver to get upgrade files. For those not familiar with it, I just posted this in Ten Forums Video thread:

Great tut Kari! Thanks!

Posted a bug to Feedback Hub. On build 17074, on my machine (AMD chip - a desktop) putting the machine into sleep requires a hard reset to wake. This bug was reported way back to the 16xxx series. Not fixed yet Microsoft.