ATP – Microsoft Threat Protection will automatically turn on for eligible license
On June 1st, 2020, Microsoft Threat Protection will be automatically turn on when you hold one of the following licenses:
After releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection for MacOS few months ago, Microsoft is expanding the support of Defender ATP to Linux platform.
If you are using one of the common Linux server distribution (RHEL 7+, CentOS Linux 7+, Ubuntu 16 LTS, or higher LTS, SLES 12+, Debian 9+ or Oracle EL 7) you will be able to onboard them onto Defender ATP to have a single advanced protection solution for your workloads, leveraging the advanced security capabilities provided by Defender ATP.
Defender ATP can be deployed on Linux using either Puppet, Ansible or your existing Linux configuration management tool.
To onboard Linux on Defender ATP, you will first need to turn on the preview feature from the Microsoft Defender Security Center (https://securitycenter.windows.com/) using the Settings\Advanced Features\Preview Features
Then you can read and follow the documentation available at http://aka.ms/mdatplinuxonboarding
Intune / SCCM – You can now apply Microsoft Defender policy using Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager on devices managed by SCCM
cubesys : Aug 31, 2020 12:00:00 AM
As you know, SCCM and Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager are being more and more close with each other.
Intune – You can now define update locations for Windows Defender
cubesys : Jul 21, 2020 12:00:00 AM
As you know you can control some settings of Windows Defender through Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager.