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FuriousFred
Copper Contributor
May 10, 2023

Enable Network Protection - Error "-2147467259" - Windows Server 2016

Hi

 

When assigning an antivirus policy, where "Enable Network Protection" is either configured to audit or blocked mode, in Intune to a group of onboarded servers. Makes all Windows server 2016 report "Enable Network Protection - Error -2147467259".

 

 

Does anyone know why and how to solve this issue?

 

Regards

Frederick

 

  • Jan_Lodde's avatar
    Jan_Lodde
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 31, 2023
    Hello I have exactly the same issue with one of our clients. He has 2 identical systems Windows 2016 Terminal Server and only one reports the error "-2147467259" in the network protection area.
    I have opened an escalated ticket with Microsoft as there is no information about the error code.
    I would also be very interested in finding a solution here.
  • Tyler_Sysadmin's avatar
    Tyler_Sysadmin
    Copper Contributor
    May 10, 2023
    I've seen this, or a very similar error code in Intune/Defender for Endpoint several times now. In my case it seems infrequent and random. The configuration profile or compliance policy will work on >95% of systems but fail here and there with an error like this. I think it must be due to some kind of integer overflow, 2147467259 seems far too close to 2147483648 (half the maximum value of a 32bit integer represented in base 10) for it to be a coincidence.

    I'd be very interested if anyone here knows more about these errors, especially if there is a way to avoid them.

    Cheers,
    Tyler

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