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Track documentation and Message Center changes for Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management.
Microsoft Learn documentation ↗The page no longer labels Microsoft Store applications as Preview or lists individual supported apps. It now states that vulnerability assessment is available for a limited set of commonly used Microsoft Store applications.
The documentation date was updated, “Dell Command” was changed to “Dell Command | Update,” and the listed software examples were revised to add 1Password, Beyond Compare, and Evernote while removing two entries.
The article now identifies Defender Vulnerability Management as part of Microsoft Security Exposure Management, clarifies licensing requirements, and refreshes the steps and terminology for viewing recommendations, exposed assets, and remediation activity.
The article now provides clearer navigation and instructions, updates terminology and links, refreshes metadata, and clarifies how device values affect exposure scores.
The article now describes block and warn actions, prerequisites, file-hash-based indicators, and the updated Advanced features link. Wording was also refined around vulnerable application versions and indicator limits.
The article now includes prerequisites, steps for creating recommendation and CVE exceptions, and guidance that exception durations cannot be extended. It also explains that a new exception is required after expiration.
The Defender Vulnerability Management page now links Recommendation APIs to the updated recommendation API path.
The documentation now names the user-trial setting, adds links to trial-management sections, clarifies the 30-day extension request, and states that trial data is retained for approximately 180 days before permanent deletion.
The page now uses clearer wording for recommendation and CVE exception scope, explains how exceptions affect portal counts and impact values, and updates the related-content heading.
The page now lists June–August 2026 corrections to detections, recommendations, CVSS scores, and tags, plus MDVM support for additional applications.
The article now explicitly refers to Microsoft Defender XDR plus Microsoft Defender for Identity preview customers and clarifies that BIOS recommendations appear when a specific BIOS version is installed on at least 5% of devices across organizations. Metadata was also updated.
The page now explicitly identifies the listed products and plans as applying to Advanced hunting queries in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management. The page date and authoring metadata were also updated.
The article title and date were updated, Log4j file-detection details were clarified, JNDI mitigation terminology was expanded, and descriptions for advanced hunting queries were added or refined.
The page now uses clearer wording for the steps to view software versions that have reached or are nearing end of support. Its publication date and authoring metadata were also updated.
The article now uses clearer section titles and wording for Intune security tasks, attention-required options, remediation activities, retention, and tracking entries.
The article now explains how to identify vulnerable components, review affected devices, and find remediation guidance. It also clarifies why the security recommendation uses the Owning app label.
The documentation now explicitly names browser extension assessment, updates the licensing prerequisite wording, and says to use permission details and risk levels when deciding whether to allow or block an extension.
The documentation now describes vulnerability reporting for supported Microsoft Store applications, including Microsoft Store-tagged CVE evidence and suggested queries.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/trial-user-guide-defender-vulnerability-management.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/defender-vulnerability-management-trial.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-assign-device-value.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-certificate-inventory.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exception.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exception-overview.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-hardware-and-firmware.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-hunt-exposed-devices.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-manage-Log4shell-guidance.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-network-share-assessment.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-end-of-support-software.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-remediation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-vulnerable-components.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-block-vuln-apps.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-browser-extensions.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies-security-configuration-assessment.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-remediation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-remediation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-baselines.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/defender-vulnerability-management-trial.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exception.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/defender-vulnerability-management-faq.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/get-defender-vulnerability-management.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-manage-Log4shell-guidance.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score-transition.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Removed Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score-transition.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-vulnerable-devices-report.md.
Removed Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/exposure-score-transition.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-zero-day-vulnerabilities.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/exposure-score-transition.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/exposure-score-transition.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/exposure-score-transition.md.
Added Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score-transition.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score.md.
Removed Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-exposure-score-transition.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-security-recommendation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-vulnerable-devices-report.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-vulnerable-devices-report.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies-security-configuration-assessment.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies-security-configuration-assessment.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies-security-configuration-assessment.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies-security-configuration-assessment.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies-security-configuration-assessment.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies-security-configuration-assessment.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-remediation.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/fixed-reported-inaccuracies.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/defender-vulnerability-management-trial.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-certificate-inventory.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/defender-vulnerability-management-capabilities.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/device-restart-status.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/threat-and-vuln-mgt-event-timeline.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-hardware-and-firmware.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-manage-Log4shell-guidance.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/mdvm-onboard-devices.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/defender-vulnerability-management.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/microsoft-defender-vulnerability-management-exposure-management.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/defender-vulnerability-management-faq.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/tvm-prerequisites.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/get-defender-vulnerability-management.md.
Updated Microsoft Defender documentation in defender-vulnerability-management/trial-user-guide-defender-vulnerability-management.md.
