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Announcing public preview of Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention

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Mas Libman
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Jul 21, 2020
UPDATE: We are excited to announce that Microsoft Endpoint DLP has finished rolling out in Public Preview to entitled customers! See the Get Started section in this blog post for links and instructio...
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Matthew Green
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Aug 03, 2020

According to the Getting Started documentation: "You must enable device monitoring and onboard your endpoints before you can monitor and protect sensitive items on a device." Later on, the Onboarding Tools and Methods for Windows 10 directions are for enrolling the device with Microsoft Defender ATP. The wording used in this article is "Endpoint DLP is native to Windows 10 and the new Microsoft Edge browser. There is no need to install or manage additional DLP software on Windows 10 machines anymore." For the sake of direct clarity, is MDATP a prerequisite for using Endpoint DLP?