Manage the schedule for when protection updates should be downloaded and applied (Microsoft)

Microsoft Defender Antivirus lets you determine when it should look for and download updates.

You can schedule updates for your endpoints by:

• Specifying the day of the week to check for protection updates
• Specifying the interval to check for protection updates
• Specifying the time to check for protection updates

You can also randomize the times when each endpoint checks and downloads protection updates. See the Schedule scans topic for more information.

Use Configuration Manager to schedule protection updates

1. On your Microsoft Endpoint Manager console, open the antimalware policy you want to change (click Assets and Compliance in the navigation pane on the left, then expand the tree to Overview > Endpoint Protection > Antimalware Policies)
2. Go to the Security intelligence updates section.
3. To check and download updates at a certain time:
   1. Set Check for Endpoint Protection security intelligence updates at a specific interval… to 0.
   2. Set Check for Endpoint Protection security intelligence updates daily at… to the time when updates should be checked. 3
4. To check and download updates on a continual interval, Set Check for Endpoint Protection security intelligence updates at a specific interval… to the number of hours that should occur between updates.
5. Deploy the updated policy as usual.

Use Group Policy to schedule protection updates

1. On your Group Policy management machine, open the Group Policy Management Console, right-click the Group Policy Object you want to configure and click Edit.
2. In the Group Policy Management Editor go to Computer configuration.
3. Click Policies then Administrative templates.
4. Expand the tree to Windows components > Microsoft Defender Antivirus > Signature Intelligence Updates and configure the following settings:
   1. Double-click the Specify the day of the week to check for security intelligence updates setting and set the option to Enabled. Enter the day of the week to check for updates. Click OK.
   2. Double-click the Specify the interval to check for security intelligence updates setting and set the option to Enabled. Enter the number of hours between updates. Click OK.
   3. Double-click the Specify the time to check for security intelligence updates setting and set the option to Enabled. Enter the time when updates should be checked. The time is based on the local time of the endpoint. Click OK.

Use PowerShell cmdlets to schedule protection updates

Use the following cmdlets:

Set-MpPreference -SignatureScheduleDay
Set-MpPreference -SignatureScheduleTime
Set-MpPreference -SignatureUpdateInterval

See Use PowerShell cmdlets to configure and run Microsoft Defender Antivirus and Defender Antivirus cmdlets for more information on how to use PowerShell with Microsoft Defender Antivirus.

Use Windows Management Instruction (WMI) to schedule protection updates

Use the Set method of the MSFT_MpPreference class for the following properties:

SignatureScheduleDay
SignatureScheduleTime
SignatureUpdateInterval

See the following for more information and allowed parameters:

• Windows Defender WMIv2 APIs

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