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Protect your removable storage and printers with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

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Jul 19, 2021
UPDATE: The Printer protection is now General Availability. We have backported the feature, so now it supports Windows 1809, 1909, 2004 or later.   External devices such as USB and home printers ...
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Feb 07, 2023

Hi Alexsemi100 / cashcow2022,

We rely on Group Policy and Intune to push the configuration. Intune side is syncing policy every few mins/i believe it is 15 mins, if you need I can get more accurate number. Reboot is not required for this feature.