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djolenole
Brass Contributor
May 30, 2024

Defender on macOS - conflicting applications

Hello, I successfully deployed and configured Microsoft Defender on macOS using Mosyle MDM. However, I see here one conflicting app:   MosyleMonitor app is deployed to all machines by defau...
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djolenole
Brass Contributor
Jun 07, 2024

This is definitely issue with Full Disk Access permissions. If I turn off full disk access for MosyleMonitor there is no conflict.

 

Mosyle support:

"The Mosyle Agent is critical to fully enforce profiles and configurations that are deployed. To ensure the agent is always functioning as expected, it contains a built-in service (known as MosyleMonitor)  to prevent any other application or process from pausing or blocking the agent process."

 

I will contact Microsoft support to check if they have any solution for this.

 

 

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Hoffman
Copper Contributor
Dec 09, 2024

I'm about to deploy Defender with Mosyle.   Are you still having issues?  Anything I should be aware of?  Thanks.

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    EvgeniiChizhov
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 11, 2024

    Hi - go ahead with the deployment and may the force be with you. We live with Mosyle & Defender for MacOS for a year - all is good.

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