Microsoft Defender Antimalware

Easily managing Microsoft Defender Antivirus updates channels

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This week is all about managing the updates channels for the different Microsoft Defender Antivirus update types. On one hand to create some awareness for the different update types, and on the other hand to show the latest configurations options for managing the updates channels for those different update types. Microsoft Defender Antivirus contains three different update types and up to six updates channel configuration options. That provides IT administrators with quite some configuration options for the devices within the environment. And starting with the latest service release of Microsoft Intune (2302), the update channel configurations becomes easily configurable via a specific configuration profile. That enables IT administrators to also use different update channels throughout the environment to gradually rollout the different updates of Microsoft …

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Protecting important folders with controlled folder access

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This week is all about controlled folder access. Not something particular new, but something important to be familiar with. Controlled folder access is a great addition to further minimize the attack surface of Windows devices. It helps protect the data in the controlled folders from malicious apps and threats, by checking apps against a list of known, trusted apps. That makes it a perfect addition to further protect the (corporate) data on Windows devices. That also makes it mainly a local security feature. To get detailed reporting information, it can be used with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This post will mainly focus on the local configuration of controlled folder access and the user experience. Introducing controlled folder access Controlled folder access is a great method …

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