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Defender for Endpoint on macOS

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Defender for Endpoint on macOS

Deploying and managing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Mac fleets via Intune.

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Deployment

The typical path on Intune-managed Macs:

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Configuration profile keys

A few important keys you'll set via the Mac configuration profile:

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Compliance and Conditional Access

The endpoint's Defender risk score feeds Intune compliance which feeds Entra ID Conditional Access — same model as Windows. A non-compliant Mac (risk too high, AV disabled, OS too old) is blocked from Microsoft 365 by t…

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Common pitfalls

For organisations migrating from Mac-specific AVs (Sophos, Norton, Symantec) to Defender for Endpoint, the experience is genuinely competitive — feature parity with the Windows side is now strong, and the unified Defend…

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