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Windows Defender & WSUS

Thursday, September 14th, 2006 | Tech Help | Comments Off

I have installed Windows Defender on a few of the corporate laptops and noticed that they were not getting definition updates. I tried reinstalling the product but was unable to get it to update. Google turned up some leads but none of them worked for me. On a whim I went to check out WSUS server to see if the updates were available there. In the Sync Options area, under Products I saw what I wanted to see. Windows Defender updates are pushed through MS Update and since we use WSUS instead of MS Update the laptops were not getting updated. I few clicks and a sync later our Windows Defender installs are now getting up to date definitions.

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