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Which Defender? It may help to clarify. I am also not clear on the "E5 policy" comment.
Is a New Version of Defender Installed With E5 Policies?
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Maranya, Damon
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When a device first has one or more E5 security policies applied. Does a new version of Windows Defender get pushed down to the device at the same time, or is it just the policies that were applied?
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Andrew Blumhardt 9,491 Reputation points Microsoft Employee2022-04-06T22:51:59.023+00:00 -
Maranya, Damon 316 Reputation points
2022-04-07T18:48:38.227+00:00 I believe that we are using Microsoft 365 Defender. But the question applies broadly to all enterprise versions of Defender.
What I mean by E5 policy is any policy covered under the E5 umbrellas. But lets just say we're taking about an antivirus policy for this discussion's sake.
A better way to put it might be. When a device is added to a group that is assigned an E5 antivirus (or other security) policy, is an upgraded/expanded version of Defender pushed down to the device? Or is it just the newly assigned policy that gets pushed?
From what I've read so far it looks like just the policy is sent. But I haven't found anywhere that says one way or the other explicitly.
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