Team: Huntress EDR
Product: Managed AV, MAV, Managed Antivirus
Environment: Managed AV management, Windows Defender
Summary: This article lists all of the Huntress recommended defaults in the Managed AV Dashboard. 

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Huntress Recommended Defaults is a feature created to streamline the configuration of best-practice Defender policies by automatically applying default settings recommended by Huntress. This article details the Huntress Recommended default settings. You can navigate to the related Microsoft documentation by clicking the hyperlinked setting. 

About Huntress Recommended Defaults

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These recommended settings can be easily applied by inheriting them at the Account level. You can also customize these settings by simply overriding at the Account, Organization, or Host levels. For more information on inheritance, please see this.

Overview

In the current version of Managed AV configuration policy, all settings default to Use System Default at the Account level, which adopts the existing Microsoft Defender default that applies to each endpoint. This feature replaces these defaults and actively sets a Huntress Recommended Default setting depending on best practice AV configuration at the Account level. If an override (or a change from Use System Default) is already configured at the Account, Organization, or Host level, this override will be preserved.  

For partners who are in Audit Mode, this will only update the configuration policy for Managed AV but will not modify any agents. 

For partners who are in Enforce Mode, Huntress Recommended Defaults will take the place of "Use System Default" at the Account level. See the table below to understand what settings may change. You can always override any Huntress Recommended Settings at the Account level if desired for your Account or organization. 

What are the settings?

* These settings are enforced and cannot be changed from the Huntress default configuration to maintain best-practice configuration and compliance. Please send any feedback to here.