Microsoft Defender Network Protection – Not Enabling via Intune – Troubleshooting & Fix

Microsoft Defender Network Protection – Not Enabling via Intune – Troubleshooting & Fix

When configuring Defender for Endpoint (MDE) customer recently, I ran into a problem when trying to enable network protection.  Network protection is a feature of MDE and Microsoft Defender Antivirus (MDAV) that takes the filtering capabilities of SmartScreen and applies them to all network traffic.  It is a prerequisite for things such as MDE's web content filtering and URL/domain indicators of compromise. This blog details the specific problem I had enabling it with Intune…