I'm running 2012 R2 SP1 CU1 and I have read many articles around the SCEP / Win 10 / Defender and I believe I have a good understanding however I still have unanswered questions. I have a win 10 device with SCEP, which shows in Prog/Feat, and Defender icon in the tray that has been running for two weeks like this. Today I noticed that there is zero information in SCCM regarding anti-malware for this device. The SCEP status for this device is basically showing that nothing is being managed and SCEP is not installed, or at least nothing is being reported. Is this a know problem or do I have something mis-configured?
I must say I have already known for years that Security Essentials, Defender, and SCEP were basically the same product however the choice to move forward with Defender only for Win 10 was a poor one. At least change the icon/title to reflect that there is some sort of central management of the anti-malware in place as the current logic is not only stupid but just down right confusing. MS seems to make the worst of the presented choices on 75% of what they do..... just me venting a little. I am the one, not MS, that has to go back to my techs explaining that Defender is SCEP for Win 10 but for for Win 8.... Oh AND! I have to change all our documentation stating the we ONLY use SCEP and NOT Defender and unless its Win 10 we use SCEP but it's really Defender with SCEP behind it. MS you laid your bed years ago when you labeled 1 product three difference name, which i said then was stupid, now you must deal with it. At minimum you could have killed SCEP and re-branded is 'Defender (Enterprise)' or something similar.....