Saturday, 24 January 2026

Defender for Android ends personal-profile protection on enrolled devices by March 2026

The period's consequential change is a Microsoft 365 Message Center major update: Microsoft Defender for Android will stop protecting personal profiles on enrolled devices by March 2026 and focus on corporate work profiles. Microsoft says work profiles and unenrolled devices are unaffected and no administrator action is required. The other updates concern Advanced Analytics documentation; the supplied join diffs expose the same reference text before and after, so they do not establish a changed query capability.

• Intune · App management

  Defender for Android narrows enrolled-device protection to work profiles

  Microsoft Defender for Android will end support for protecting personal profiles on enrolled devices by March 2026, focusing solely on corporate work profiles. The change does not affect work profiles or unenrolled devices, and the Message Center notice says no administrator action is required.

• Advanced Analytics · Endpoint analytics

  Device Query clarifies that scalar properties are required by query operators

  The Advanced Analytics Device Query Multiple Devices page now states that the Device entity cannot be used directly with scalar-requiring operators such as distinct, summarize, and order by. Query authors should use a specific scalar device property, with Device.SerialNumber and Device.OSVersion given as examples; this is a documentation clarification, not a reported product behavior change.

This period briefing was generated by AI from the tracked Microsoft Learn and Message Center changes.