Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/onboarding-defender-experts-for-hunting.md.
Day in brief
Work with the Coverage and maturity dashboard leads 26 Defender updates
17 February 2026 recorded 25 updated, 1 removed Microsoft Defender documentation changes. The most active areas were Endpoint, Identity, Defender XDR.
- Work with the Coverage and maturity dashboard
Defender XDR · Identity protectionUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/identity-security-dashboard.md.
- Start using Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting
Defender XDR · Hunting and detectionUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/onboarding-defender-experts-for-hunting.md.
- Attack Surface Reduction Rules Overview
Endpoint · Vulnerabilities and exposureUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/attack-surface-reduction-rules-overview.md.
- Create custom detection rulesDefender XDR · Hunting and detection
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/custom-detection-rules.md.
- Alerts Xdr
Identity · Identity protectionUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/alerts-xdr.md.
This period briefing was assembled from the tracked Microsoft Learn and Message Center changes.
26 updates
Microsoft Defender XDR
4 updatesUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/custom-detection-rules.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/onboarding-defender-experts-for-hunting.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-xdr/identity-security-dashboard.md.
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
13 updates
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/whats-new-in-microsoft-defender-endpoint.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-endpoint-versions.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-endpoint-versions.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/api/exposed-apis-create-app-partners.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/api/run-advanced-query-sample-python.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-endpoint-versions.md.
This script acquires the App Context Token and stores it in the variable $token for later use.
UpdatedUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/api/device-health-export-antivirus-health-report-api.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/microsoft-defender-endpoint-versions.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/whats-new-in-microsoft-defender-endpoint.md.
Api Hello World
UpdatedUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/api/api-hello-world.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/api/exposed-apis-full-sample-powershell.md.
PowerShell
UpdatedUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/api/exposed-apis-create-app-webapp.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-endpoint/attack-surface-reduction-rules-overview.md.
Microsoft Defender for Identity
9 updatesAlerts Xdr
UpdatedUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/alerts-xdr.md.
Alerts Xdr
UpdatedUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/alerts-xdr.md.
Whats New
UpdatedUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/whats-new.md.
Whats New
UpdatedUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/whats-new.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/deploy/create-directory-service-account-gmsa.md.
Dashboard
UpdatedUpdated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/dashboard.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/deploy/prerequisites-sensor-version-2.md.
Remote Calls Sam
RemovedRemoved Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/deploy/remote-calls-sam.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-for-identity/understand-lateral-movement-paths.md.