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. Enabling these settings will override that default. Use Group Policy to schedule protection updatesīy default, Microsoft Defender Antivirus will check for an update 15 minutes before the time of any scheduled scans. to the number of hours that should occur between updates. To check and download updates on a continual interval, Set Check for Endpoint Protection security intelligence updates at a specific interval. to the time when updates should be checked. Set Check for Endpoint Protection security intelligence updates daily at.Set Check for Endpoint Protection security intelligence updates at a specific interval.To check and download updates at a certain time: Go to the Security intelligence updates section. 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) Use Configuration Manager to schedule protection updates

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

Specifying the time to check for protection updates.

Specifying the interval to check for protection updates.

Specifying the day of the week to check for protection updates.

You can schedule updates for your endpoints by:

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

Windows 10 updates every day