Configuring Microsoft Defender Antivirus for session hosts
This section examines Microsoft Defender Antivirus for session hosts. Before we discuss scans and prevent notifications, I want to examine offloading security intelligence updates onto a host machine.
The benefit of doing this is that you can reduce the impact of CPU, disk, and memory resources on session hosts when security intelligence updates are processed. You can manage Microsoft Defender Antivirus using Group Policy; however, you can also use System Center Configuration Manager, Intune, and other third-party mobile device management (MDM) platforms.
See the following link from Microsoft on deploying Microsoft Defender Antivirus: https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/deployment-vdi-microsoft-defender-antivirus?view=o365-worldwide.
What’s the difference between Microsoft Defender Antivirus and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint?
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