Turn off telemetry in SQL Server install config file I'm creating a SQL Server 2017 Image Completion config file, and the automatically generated one has a bunch of stuff about "telemetry". I clicked no to the prompts, but it still put several user accounts in the config file, yet no true/false option for the telemetry itself. Here are the user accounts it included in the config file:


  ; TelemetryUserNameConfigDescription 
  
  SQLTELSVCACCT="NT Service\SQLTELEMETRY"
  
  ; TelemetryStartupConfigDescription 
  
  SQLTELSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Automatic"
  
  ; ASTelemetryStartupConfigDescription 
  
  ASTELSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Automatic"
  
  ; ASTelemetryUserNameConfigDescription 
  
  ASTELSVCACCT="NT Service\SSASTELEMETRY"
  
  ; TelemetryUserNameConfigDescription 
  
  ISTELSVCACCT="NT Service\SSISTELEMETRY140"
  
  ; TelemetryStartupConfigDescription 
  
  ISTELSVCSTARTUPTYPE="Automatic"


I suppose I could change the startup type to manual, but I would rather just remove all this garbage. Any idea how to turn this off via config file?
as far as i know, the only way to disable telemetry is to change the registry keys later. There is no actual harm to having those accounts, I don't think.