Microsoft 365 – Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (WDATP) – Implementation Docs

With more and more enterprises embracing digitalization and also the Microsoft Cloud solutions, there’s a nice add-on to Microsoft 365 subscriptions (or if you’re using E5 tier) called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection or WDATP.

WDATP is a unified, cloud based platform for, preventative protection, post breach detection, automated investigation and response.

You can read a little bit more about it here:
Microsoft 365 - Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection – Overview

But this post is about what you need to do to implement it in your organization.

Below are direct links to Microsoft documentation that helps to easily implement and troubleshoot WDATP:

WDATP - Onboard Windows 10 machine

WDATP - Run a detection test on a newly onboarded Windows Defender ATP machine

WDATP - Configure machine proxy and Internet connectivity settings

WDATP - Enable access to Windows Defender ATP service URLs in the proxy server

WDATP - Troubleshoot Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection onboarding issues

Microsoft Surface Hub 2S Presentation with Panos Panay

Microsoft presented last week the new Microsoft Surface Hub 2S.
Like always, a passionate presentation from Surface team leader Panos Panay showing of all the new things and it’s integration in Microsoft 365 ecosystem.

View the full presentation here:
Microsoft Hub 2S Presentation

Office 365, 2019 and 2016 ADMX 4849.1000 (19/04/2019)

Microsoft launched new ADMX files for Office 365, 2019 and 2016.
The download includes the usual excel file with all the new settings available.

Download it here:
Administrative Template files (ADMX/ADML) and Office Customization Tool for Office 365 ProPlus, Office 2019, and Office 2016

Issues - Windows April Updates vs McAfee

Slow boot times, sometimes freezes, this are some of the symptoms described by some users after installing Microsoft’s April 2019 Patch Tuesday.

As it seems this happens in machines with McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) installed.

Both McAfee and Microsoft have identified the issue and are currently investigating the issue:
McAfee Knowledge Center - KB91465
BleepingComputer - Windows April Updates Also Have Problems with McAfee Software

RSS Feeds–Keep up-to-date with the latest product updates

If you’re like me and still loves using rss feeds to get the latest information, Microsoft has a nice service to let you choose which rss feeds you receive.

This makes it easy to get only what you want without the need to choose from a wide list of rss links.
Here, you’ll select the product, create the RSS feed link and add it to your favorite RSS reader.

Take a look at:
Microsoft Support Content Updates RSS generator

Microsoft Edge with Chromium preview available for download

Although there was over the Internet, some unofficial versions of Microsoft Edge with Chromium, it is now available through Microsoft’s preview programs.

In this phase it is available in 2 preview channels:

• Dev Channel – here you’ll have access to upcoming features that later will be available to final users.
• Canary Channel - this branch has pre-released code that was not totally tested.
• Beta Channel – Not yet available and presumably will be in next fall.

So go ahead and try the next Microsoft’s browser, Microsoft Edge with Chromium:
Microsoft Edge Insider Channels

[Solved] Windows Admin Center not opening in Edge after update

If you’ve recently upgraded Windows Admin Center to the latest version, you may get the following error in Edge:
”HTTP 403 error saying "can't get to this page"

In my case, this happened because I was not selecting the correct certificate when launching WAC.

So, when launching WAC, make sure you select the following certificate:

Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise 1809 finally available on VLSC

Don’t know if this happened with a lot of you guys but, at least at my Microsoft Volume License Service Center, Windows 10 Enterprise 1809 a.k.a. October Update appeared and then disappeared in the downloads section.

Well, logged in today and there it was again for download in 3 flavors (x86; x64 and 64bit ARM version)

Visual Studio 2019 Network Installs

Here’s just a very quick guide for creating a Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 network/package install

The first thing you need to do is to download the install bootstrapper that you want (Enterprise or Professional):

Visual Studio Community	vs_community.exe
Visual Studio Professional	vs_professional.exe
Visual Studio Enterprise	vs_enterprise.exe

You’ll notice that if you don’t use any parameters you’ll download a complete source of Visual Studio 2019. This means at least 35GB of source files, and I doubt you need that, so, to download exactly what you need and get a much lighter install source, follow these steps:

1. You can download only the components you need and the language you need
   
   
2. To determine the components and language IDs (this may vary between SKUs) visit this webpages:
   Workload or Components IDs
   Language IDs
   
   
3. Now that you have all you need, just run the command-line below. In this example I’m creating an offline installer for Visual Studio 2019 Enterprise that includes:
   
   - Visual Studio Core Files
   - Managed Desktop components (for C# developing for example)
   - Recommend components (a Microsoft recommended files based on components id)
   
   Command-line
   vs_enterprise__2022417084.1542710334.exe --layout C:\Temp\MSVisualStudioEnterprise2019 --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.ManagedDesktop --includeRecommended --lang en-US
   
   
4. Now that you have all files, just run the following command line for silent install:
   vs_setup.exe --quiet --wait --nocache --noweb --norestart