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I believe that having Windows Defender built into the Windows Server 2016 operating system is going to be a game-changer. The process of installing third-party antivirus software onto your servers is one of those things that always make admins cringe. You never really know whether or not it's going to play well with the server you have built. Now, I'm sure that many of you are not going to automatically trust Defender as an enterprise-ready and capable antivirus solution, but I believe that too will change over time. If it wasn't doing a good job, wouldn't Microsoft have thrown it away at this point, rather than continue to improve it and now trust it enough to exist inside a server operating system?

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