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How to use tagging effectively (Part 1)

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Steve Newby
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Jan 05, 2021
Why Use Tagging? One important feature which often isn’t utilised correctly is the use of tags within Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.  This is a functionality that was introduced to allow you to a...
Updated Jan 06, 2021
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Tagging effectively
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BrechtMo
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Jan 08, 2021

Nice writeup, thanks.

We tried to assign tags to create a hiearchical structure, e.g.:

Dept

Dept.Subdept

Dept.Subdept.SubSubDept

 

but we can't filter in the device list on those tags. All devices are visible after you apply the filter.

The dot character seems to be the issue, similar issue with "*".