Defender for Identity

Identity threat detection and response: Linking accounts

Intro This blog post covers a Defender for Identity feature that hasn’t received much attention. Despite flying under the radar, it’s a valuable setting for security teams who want to see all user identities across the …

February 11, 2026 · 6 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Endpoint

Defender for Endpoint Migration: Troubleshooting Persistent Third-Party AV Registration

Intro I recently assisted a costumer with migrating to Defender for Endpoint. They had some windows 10/11 endpoints where the 3rd party Antivirus (AV) kept registered as primary Antivirus which by default put Defender …

January 28, 2026 · 4 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Identity

MDI-configurator v1.0 is out !

A user-friendly graphical interface for managing Microsoft Defender for Identity (MDI) configurations using PowerShell. This PowerShell script provides a comprehensive WPF-based GUI wrapper around the Microsoft Defender …

December 1, 2025 · 2 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Endpoint

Remotely Intune wipe devices in Defender for Endpoint isolation mode!

Intro Microsoft recently announced that device isolation exclusions in Defender for Endpoint are now generally available. This made me think about possible use cases for this new feature. Together with Bjorn Claes, we …

October 22, 2025 · 4 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender XDR

The ultimate Defender XDR RBAC visualization

Do you also struggle, like I do, to assign the correct permissions in Microsoft Defender XDR RBAC when designing your RBAC model? I recently created a visual overview of the current roles and their functions. It helped …

September 29, 2025 · 1 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Endpoint

Guidance on how to manage products updates for Defender for Server on Linux distributions

Intro There are many helpful blog/videos posts about managing Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) updates on Windows, but there’s not much information available for MDE on Linux. In this blog post, I’ll share my …

August 27, 2025 · 8 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Endpoint

Defender AV Mystery: Solving the ‘Source Files could Not be Found’

Intro This week I bumped into a problem that I had not experienced for several years at one of my customers. The customer was migrating from a 3rd-party EDR to Defender for Endpoint on their servers. During the …

June 23, 2025 · 3 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Endpoint

MDE-Troubleshooter v1.6.1 available

What’s new: – Inspired by Yong Rhee “Resolving High CPU Utilization in MDE” session, added additional options to run the Performance analyzer, Overview is now by default. – Added ASR rules that went GA – Added a check if …

June 7, 2025 · 1 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Office 365

Defender for Office 365: Visualisation of the Tenant Allow/Block List features

During my work with customers, when I explain the tenant allow and block features in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P1/P2, I often get the question: why did Microsoft make this so hard to understand? That comment gave …

May 7, 2025 · 1 min · Thomas Verheyden
Defender for Endpoint

Fix: SENSE Service stuck in START_PENDING on WS2012R2 or WS2016? Check OOBE !

Intro This blog discusses a challenge I encountered with a client. They reached out for assistance in addressing issues during the deployment of Defender for Endpoint on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016. …

November 27, 2024 · 4 min · Thomas Verheyden