Manage Policies
In brief
The page now lists Defender Safe Deployment (Preview) and Microsoft Defender AI agent runtime protection profiles. It also says administrators can control when Windows devices receive Microsoft Defender updates.
What Intune admins need to know
Review the newly listed profiles and update-management use case if relevant to your endpoint security policies.
This summary was assembled from the tracked documentation change. Verify important details in the full Microsoft Learn article.
Documentation change
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- Purpose: Configure and manage antivirus protection settings
- Platform support: Windows, macOS, Linux
- Available profiles: Defender Safe Deployment (Preview), Defender Update controls, Microsoft Defender
Antivirus,AI agent runtime protection, Microsoft Defender Antivirus exclusions, Microsoft Defender Antivirus, Windows Securityexperience,Experience, macOS Endpoint security antivirus - Use case: Centrally manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus policies
onand control when Windows devices receive Microsoft Defender updates
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- **Purpose**: Configure and manage antivirus protection settings
- **Platform support**: Windows, macOS, Linux
-- **Available profiles**: Defender Update controls, Microsoft Defender Antivirus, Microsoft Defender Antivirus exclusions, Windows Security experience, macOS Endpoint security antivirus
-- **Use case**: Centrally manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus policies on Windows devices
+- **Available profiles**: Defender Safe Deployment (Preview), Defender Update controls, Microsoft Defender AI agent runtime protection, Microsoft Defender Antivirus exclusions, Microsoft Defender Antivirus, Windows Security Experience, macOS Endpoint security antivirus
+- **Use case**: Centrally manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus policies and control when Windows devices receive Microsoft Defender updates
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