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Microsoft Defender SmartScreen Setup Setting Catalog vs. Endpoint Security??
Hi, I've notice that there's seems to be a couple of different places to turn on Microsoft Defender Smart Screen. In Endpoint Security -> Attach Surface Reduction -> Application Control, I find t...
- EP profile is more focused on the security settings. However, like I mentioned earlier, it does seem to leave out some of the relevant Defender Smartscreen settings. I normally use EP profile to configure whatever is available and then configure the rest using settings catalog. You can use just settings catalog if you like.
ahelton_kcl there are a lot of Defender smart screen settings missing in Endpoint security profiles. You can use settings catalog or a combination of both. I personally use both.
- Do I need to configure both the "Configure Microsoft Defender SmartScreen" in the Settings Catalog and the "Turn on Windows SmartScreen" in Endpoint to effectively turn on this feature? Or can I just do the latter of the two? It seems to me that, based on the provided tooltips in Intune, they do the exact same things. I wasn't sure if there was any reason to configure both...
- EP profile is more focused on the security settings. However, like I mentioned earlier, it does seem to leave out some of the relevant Defender Smartscreen settings. I normally use EP profile to configure whatever is available and then configure the rest using settings catalog. You can use just settings catalog if you like.
