Deploying to a Test Collection First

As part of your initial setup of endpoint protection in your hierarchy, you should first deploy the agent to a test collection containing a group of test computers. This lets you verify that any custom client settings and custom malware policies function as intended before rolling those custom policies to the targeted computers. If your intended targets are specific server roles, your test computers should match those roles to verify that things work as you expected.

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