ensure that Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac continues protecting all macOS devices regardless OS version they were running prior to the Big Sur upgrade.įor Big Sur on Apple M1 Chip to be supported in the near future, Microsoft program team is working on the Defender for Endpoint for MacOS with M1 Chip and will release update for that sometime in the first half of 2021 according to the information provided by Sr. ensure that even down-level devices are ready for macOS 11 Big Sur upgrade. If the configuration is not deployed prior to the Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac agent update, end-users will be presented with a series of system dialogs asking to grant the agent all necessary permissions associated with the new system extensions.Įven though Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac new implementation based on system extensions is only applicable to devices running macOS version 10.15.4 or later, deploying configuration proactively across the entire macOS fleet will have two benefits:. To ensure that the Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac update is delivered and applied seamlessly from an end-user experience perspective, a new remote configuration must be deployed to all eligible macOS devices before Microsoft publishes the new agent version. The update is applicable to devices running macOS version 10.15.4 or later. An update to the Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac agent is required on all eligible macOS of previous versions prior to moving these devices to macOS 11. Microsoft released an update to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint MacOS that will leverage new system extensions instead of kernel extensions with the following details: 
Excluded Domains for per-app VPN connections.Prevent users from disabling automatic VPN.Support for 4096-bit SCEP certificate keys.“Enable direct download” setting for associated domains.Microsoft Endpoint Manager now supports the following new device configurations on MacOS Big Sur :
Big Sur enhance MDM (Mobile Device Management) protocol as key for automated device enrollment, content caching and managing apps.īig Sur’s code running process has been moved from kernel extensions (KEXTs) to system extensions for security reason.
Today we discuss about preparing our MD for Endpoint on Organization’s MacOS Systems and make them ready for “Big Sur”, the greatest and latest version of Mac operating system which is released by Apple on the 12 th of November, 2020.
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