Microsoft Improves and Simplifies Defender for Endpoint Management Capabilities

Microsoft Improves and Simplifies Defender for Endpoint Management Capabilities

In one of the biggest changes to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) in its product history, you no longer need a separate management engine to configure endpoint settings. In this blog, we'll look at what that change is, why it was necessary, initial impressions, and what you might want to do next. Historic management architecture needed simplifying MDE (and it's Windows client, Microsoft Defender Antivirus (MDAV)) always stood out from the crowd of endpoint…
Deploy Microsoft Store Apps using Intune with Configuration Manager (SCCM) Co-Management (Fix ‘Not Applicable’ Status)

Deploy Microsoft Store Apps using Intune with Configuration Manager (SCCM) Co-Management (Fix ‘Not Applicable’ Status)

Intune provides an interface to easily deploy apps from the Microsoft Store to your registered users and devices, but even if you have SCCM (Config Manager) Co-Mangement enabled with the default workloads shifted to Intune in Co-Management properties, there is more to be done.  If you don't follow these steps, you will receive the status of Not applicable in the Intune client apps user and device install status pages. Prerequisite: This only works with…