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How to Fix Missing Threat Severity Settings in Intune Antivirus Policy

How to Fix Missing Threat Severity Settings in Intune Antivirus Policy

Written By Anoop C Nair
Last Updated July 1, 2026
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How to Fix Missing Threat Severity Settings in Intune Antivirus Policy! While updating the Intune Antivirus policy, we noticed an unusual issue where portions of the Threat Severity section were missing. When portions of the Threat Severity settings are missing in Intune Antivirus policies, IT admins lose control over how threats are handled on endpoints.

Normally, the policy lets you choose how strict the antivirus should be for high, medium, or low-level threats. But now, those options are missing. Without the ability to configure high, medium, and low-level threat protections, admins cannot ensure that all devices are properly protected, which increases the risk of malware or ransomware infections.

This missing impact both security and efficiency, making it harder for IT admins to safeguard the organisation and maintain consistent antivirus policies across all devices. Additionally, IT teams may need to spend extra time troubleshooting, reapplying settings, or monitoring endpoints manually to ensure protection, which can affect productivity and delay other IT projects.

In this post, you will find complete details on how to fix missing Threat Severity settings in an Intune Antivirus policy. It covers the reasons why the settings may disappear, the impact on IT admins and organizations, and step-by-step methods to restore the missing configurations to ensure your endpoints remain properly protected.

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How to Fix Missing Threat Severity Settings in Intune Antivirus Policy - Fig.1
How to Fix Missing Threat Severity Settings in Intune Antivirus Policy – Fig.1

How to Fix Missing Threat Severity Settings in Intune Antivirus Policy

After saving changes to the Intune Antivirus policy, we checked the Defender settings and noticed that the Threat Severity options were completely gone. This probably happened because of a error during the update or save process, and it can temporarily reduce how well antivirus protection works for the organization.

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How to Fix Missing Threat Severity Settings in Intune Antivirus Policy – Fig.2

Why Threat Severity Settings Might Disappear in Intune

This issue can happen for several reasons, such as recent updates to the Intune portal, changes in how policies are structured, or compatibility problems between Microsoft Defender and Intune. It is also possible that Microsoft has moved or changed some settings in the latest version.

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How to Fix Missing Threat Severity Settings in Intune Antivirus Policy – Fig.3

Steps to Restore Missing Threat Severity Settings

Let’s discuss the Steps to Restore Missing Threat Severity Settings. An antivirus is a type of software that is designed to protect computers and devices from malicious programs such as viruses, malware, ransomware, and spyware.

Steps to Restore Missing Threat Severity Settings
Administrators can first review the policy version history to see if the previous configuration is still available.
If the settings are not in the history, admins can reapply the missing configurations manually to restore the desired threat protection levels.
Creating a new antivirus policy can help determine if the missing options reappear, ensuring that endpoints continue to receive proper protection.
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Anoop C Nair has been Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for 10 consecutive years! He is a Workplace Solution Architect with more than 22+ years of experience in Workplace technologies. He is also a Blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group Community leader. His primary focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM and Intune. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM,  Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security, Career, etc

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Anoop C Nair is Workplace Technology solution architect with 25+ years of experience in global enterprise organizations such as JP Morgan, Capgemini, etc. Microsoft Certified Trainer. Microsoft MVP from 2015 onwards for consecutive 11+ years! He also conducts Intune and modern workplace tech training for enterprise organizations. He is Blogger, Speaker, and Founder of HTMD Community and HTMD Conference. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like Intune, Windows, Cloud PC. He writes about technologies like Intune, SCCM, Windows, Cloud PC, Windows, Entra, Microsoft Security.

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