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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint: Enterprise Deployment & Support

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is an enterprise-grade endpoint security platform built into the Windows operating system designed to help protect businesses against sophisticated cyber threats. It offers comprehensive protection, detection, and response capabilities, including next-generation antivirus, endpoint detection and response (EDR), threat and vulnerability management, and attack surface reduction. Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is a unified solution that can help organizations simplify their security stack and enhance their overall security posture.

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3h total

6 modules, 35 lessons

Available in English

Certificate on completion

What You Will Learn

Understand how MDE is deployed and managed centrally via MDM (Intune) and why Tamper Protection prevents local changes

Apply enterprise-standard performance tuning: CPU throttling, scan scheduling, and network drive exclusions

Handle developer exclusion requests end-to-end — from ticket creation through policy sync

Diagnose and resolve high-CPU MDE issues on macOS using mdatp CLI diagnostics

Capture and analyse Windows MpPerformanceRecording (.etl) files to identify top scanned files

Escalate unresolved MDE issues to L3 with the correct diagnostic artefact package

Skills Covered

Microsoft Defender for EndpointEDREndpoint SecurityMicrosoft IntuneTamper ProtectionPerformance Tuningmdatp CLIPowerShellExclusion ManagementL3 Escalation

Course Curriculum

6 modules · 35 lessons · 3h total

What is Microsoft Defender for Endpoint — EDR, antivirus, and threat intelligence in one platform

MDE deployment models: standalone vs. MDM-managed (Intune) vs. SCCM co-managed

Why centralised management via MDM is the enterprise standard — consistency, auditability, no local override

Tamper Protection: what it blocks, why it is enabled by default, and why users cannot change it

Policy sync lifecycle: how MDM pushes MDE config to enrolled devices and the expected propagation delay

MDE licensing: Plan 1 vs. Plan 2 feature differences — EDR, auto-investigation, threat analytics

Assessment — Test Your MDE Knowledge5 questions

Test what you've learned in this course with 5 scenario-based questions covering MDE policy management, performance troubleshooting, exclusion workflows, and escalation procedures.

Your Instructor

Syed Waqas Tayyab

Senior IT System Engineer · SAP Saudi Arabia · 15+ Years

Azure Security Certified IT engineer with 15+ years at SAP managing enterprise infrastructure across MENA. All course content is drawn from real daily operations — no theory, no filler.