diff --git a/deploy/hubble/manifests/controller/helm/retina/templates/agent/configmap.yaml b/deploy/hubble/manifests/controller/helm/retina/templates/agent/configmap.yaml
index 704cf5a9c5..0dd67890c4 100644
--- a/deploy/hubble/manifests/controller/helm/retina/templates/agent/configmap.yaml
+++ b/deploy/hubble/manifests/controller/helm/retina/templates/agent/configmap.yaml
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ data:
     metricsInterval: {{ .Values.metricsInterval }}
     metricsIntervalDuration: {{ .Values.metricsIntervalDuration }}
     enableTelemetry: {{ .Values.enableTelemetry }}
-    enablePodLevel: {{ .Values.enablePodLevel }}
+    enablePodLevel: false
     remoteContext: {{ .Values.remoteContext }}
     bypassLookupIPOfInterest: {{ .Values.bypassLookupIPOfInterest }}
 {{- end}}
diff --git a/deploy/hubble/manifests/controller/helm/retina/values.yaml b/deploy/hubble/manifests/controller/helm/retina/values.yaml
index 0717e0b500..5d93b8e6e3 100644
--- a/deploy/hubble/manifests/controller/helm/retina/values.yaml
+++ b/deploy/hubble/manifests/controller/helm/retina/values.yaml
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ logLevel: info
 enabledPlugin_linux: '["linuxutil","packetforward","packetparser","dns", "dropreason"]'
 enabledPlugin_win: '["hnsstats"]'
 
-enableTelemetry: true
+enableTelemetry: false
 
 # Interval, in duration, to scrape/publish metrics.
 metricsIntervalDuration: "10s"
diff --git a/deploy/legacy/manifests/controller/helm/retina/templates/daemonset.yaml b/deploy/legacy/manifests/controller/helm/retina/templates/daemonset.yaml
index f4e44332e0..f222ccc2fa 100644
--- a/deploy/legacy/manifests/controller/helm/retina/templates/daemonset.yaml
+++ b/deploy/legacy/manifests/controller/helm/retina/templates/daemonset.yaml
@@ -203,7 +203,13 @@ spec:
             containerPort: {{ .Values.retinaPort }}
           workingDir: $env:CONTAINER_SANDBOX_MOUNT_POINT
           command:
-            - controller.exe --config ./retina/config.yaml 
+            - powershell.exe
+            - -command
+            {{- if semverCompare ">=1.28" .Capabilities.KubeVersion.GitVersion }}
+            - $env:CONTAINER_SANDBOX_MOUNT_POINT/controller.exe --config ./retina/config.yaml
+            {{- else }}
+            - .\setkubeconfigpath.ps1; ./controller.exe --config ./retina/config.yaml --kubeconfig ./kubeconfig
+            {{- end }}
           env:
           - name: POD_NAME
             valueFrom:
diff --git a/windows/kubeconfigtemplate.yaml b/windows/kubeconfigtemplate.yaml
index 21a6c054f2..49e6c8ad50 100644
--- a/windows/kubeconfigtemplate.yaml
+++ b/windows/kubeconfigtemplate.yaml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ contexts:
 - name: azure-retina-windows@kubernetes
   context:
     cluster: kubernetes
-    namespace: {{ .Values.namespace }}
+    namespace: kube-system
     user: azure-retina-windows
 current-context: azure-retina-windows@kubernetes
 users:
diff --git a/windows/manifests/windows.yaml b/windows/manifests/windows.yaml
index 4fd7cb2d5a..62c78ba49c 100644
--- a/windows/manifests/windows.yaml
+++ b/windows/manifests/windows.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ metadata:
   labels:
     app: retina
   name: retina-win
-  namespace: {{ .Values.namespace }}
+  namespace: kube-system
   annotations:
     prometheus.io/port: "10093"
     prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ apiVersion: v1
 kind: ConfigMap
 metadata:
   name: retina-config-win
-  namespace: {{ .Values.namespace }}
+  namespace: kube-system
 data:
   config.yaml: |-
     apiServer: