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Microsoft Defender Antivirus configuration

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Microsoft Defender Antivirus configuration

How to configure Microsoft Defender Antivirus for Windows endpoints — the settings that matter and how to manage them.

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Core capabilities

Defender Antivirus provides:

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Configuration surfaces

Defender Antivirus can be configured via:

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Settings that matter

Settings worth getting right:

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ASR rules

Roll out in audit mode first for each rule; review what would have been blocked; convert to block mode for the safe ones.

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Integration with Defender for Endpoint

When Defender for Endpoint is deployed, Defender Antivirus becomes one component of a much richer story:

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