Yammer and Defender for Endpoint Rants in a quick Midlife Crisis episode of Hope This Helps!
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MS Ignite Part 2Look up CVEs faster with MsrcSecurityUpdates PowerShell Modulehttps://aventistech.com/kb/get-latest-cve-from-msrc-with-powershell/February patches were badKB4601392 badMicrosoft said that the erroneous servicing-stack update (KB4601392) froze installations for the “Cumulative Update” from the recent Windows Update. This resulted in the installation for the update halting at 24 percent.KB5001078 goodHear annoying children better in an upcoming Teams "Satin" audio updateNew PowerShell blog comingYammer
Where is my #YearOfYammer?MS Defender for Sanity's Endpoint
Defender for Endpoint (Formerly ATP) Onboarding documentationLet's start with the good: Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) documentation is actually pretty good/straightforward.But after that, the info on antivirus becomes much less clearWhy is there little to mention of the SCEP setup?Configure Endpoint Protection on a standalone clientSo I need SCCM no matter what? Even though I can install SCEP with no policies? What if I don't have/want/need SCCM? I thought the web console was the central management!"Configure the SCEP client Cloud Protection Service membership to the Advanced setting" but the SCEP client has no such settings. There's "send file samples automatically when further analysis is required" and advanced Microsoft Active Protection Service (MAPS) membership options. Are these the same…??MS MVP Joe Stocker explains it better than MS in terms of what OS needs what in fewer words and linksJanuary 2017 anti-malware platform update for Endpoint Protection clientsWhy do I need to view the source code to see the KB number? (KB3209361)Why is the KB not available on the Update catalog?Why do I need to use freakin PSWindowsUpdate to install this?That is Accurate
PSWindowsUpdate lets you pick and choose which updates to install on Windows 10, Server 2016/2019.