PENDING Virus and Threat Protection Engine Unavailable after Autopilot

[EricT]

Hi everyone,

We're testing out Autopilot and everything is working great so far other than what's in my title.

We've tried so many different things, Remediation script assigned to our AutoPilot group (so that it runs during Autopilot), packaged the script as a Win32 app and assigned to ESP profile, checked all of our configuration settings for Defender and found one this morning that feels like it should fix our issue but hasn't yet.

Another thing we found is to install the engine manually using an exe provided by Microsoft. Again, packaged and deployed to the ESP and nothing. To note, all of these fixes work if ran manually which is not ideal. If anyone has any clues as to why any of this isn't working, I'd greatly appreciate that!

Thanks!

 

[Harshit Pandey]

Have you configured policy in Intune to turn off the defender updates?

 

[EricT]

I don't think so. Do you know which policy it is exactly? Currently traveling and won't be able to check until later.

 

[Harshit Pandey]

There is a policy in Intune where you can defer the defender updates. Have a check on that.