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formolim89
Copper Contributor
Dec 21, 2021

Webcontent Filtering and Smartscreen

Hi Guys,    We are running co-management environment - our devices are onboarded in Microsoft 365 Defender portal and I have configured policies for web-content filtering and pushed it to a few use...
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formolim89
Copper Contributor
Dec 21, 2021

Jonhed 

Hi Jonhed,

Correct, the users using onboarded devices are part of the device group which content filtering policy is scoped to.

I am using Microsoft defender antivirus policy.

I also tried Endpoint Protection Policy.

 

 

 

 

I did confirm Network protection is enabled. 

 

Realtime and cloud protection are both enabled and I am not able to access the test URL motioned in the article. I got "connection blocked notification"

 

And still I am able to access websites that falls under the category that I have blocked in Microsoft 365 Defender portal web content policy.  It is strange...

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Jonhed
Iron Contributor
Dec 21, 2021

formolim89 
Does indeed look like it should work..

 

Have you checked if MDAV is running in active mode, and if it is running the latest platform versions?

(Can be seen with the "Get-MpComputerStatus" powershell command)

 

The pic you pasted shows Smartscreen for apps and files being configured, but have you also activated smartscreen in Edge?

 

Can you access the sites in both Edge and 3rd party browsers such as Chrome?

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    formolim89
    Copper Contributor
    Dec 22, 2021
    MDAV is running in active mode and has the latest definitions.
    SmartScreen in edge is also configured.
    I can access the sites from all the browsers.
    I logged it with MS. fingers crossed.
    Thanks for your help.
    Cheers,
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      Jonhed
      Iron Contributor
      Dec 22, 2021
      Alright.

      Sorry to not have been much help.
      Would love to hear what the problem was if you get to the bottom of it.

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