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Make sure Tamper Protection is turned on

Microsoft

Aug 28, 2021

Tamper protection in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) helps protect organizations like yours from unwanted changes to your security settings by unauthorized users. Tamper protection prevents mal...

Updated Aug 30, 2021

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Jose Camacaro Latouche

Brass Contributor

Aug 30, 2021

Great article, OludeleOgunrinde . Thank you.

Hypothetical scenario:

If a device is configured to have Tamper Protection ON from Microsoft 365 Defender Portal (global setting), but it is also configured to have Tamper Protection OFF (Disabled) from a Configuration Profile from Intune, what is the outcome? Which configuration wins?