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What does "deprecated" mean in the Defender Antivirus for Linux settings?
When you create a Microsoft Defender Antivirus policy for Linux in the Endpoint Security Policies blade of the Defender admin center, there are two settings in the Antivirus Engine section that have "(deprecated)" after them: "Enable real-time protection (deprecated)" and "Enable passive mode (deprecated)":
What exactly does "deprecated" mean in this context? I can't imagine that the features themselves are deprecated; are we supposed to be configuring them elsewhere?
Hello,
those settings are marked as deprecated because they’ve been replaced by a newer option: Enforcement level. By default, this is set to Passive, but it also supports Real time and On demand.
You’ll find this new setting in the same policy, just a little further down. It’s recommended to switch to this newer method. 🙂
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Thank you JiriLacina , this was very helpful.
If anyone from the product team happens to stumble upon this: please update the documentation. At the very least, put something more helpful in the info popovers next to each of the deprecated settings.
Hello,
those settings are marked as deprecated because they’ve been replaced by a newer option: Enforcement level. By default, this is set to Passive, but it also supports Real time and On demand.
You’ll find this new setting in the same policy, just a little further down. It’s recommended to switch to this newer method. 🙂
