Configuring automatic sample submission
How can I configure automatic sample submission so that my users don't have to take any actions?
Microsoft actually gets 2 million new file samples daily according to the report in September 2016, which is pretty awesome. It ensures that it's continuously improving every day. They have around 80 billion files of metadata to work with.
In the first versions of System Center Endpoint Protection, when suspicious software or malware were found, it would popup and ask the user to allow it to transfer the sample to Microsoft Cloud. There were two problems with that: first, the users got scared and called IT Support. Second, the ones who were not scared and wanted to hit the Yes button couldn't because they needed administrative rights.
Then the Microsoft team made a workaround with a policy that you could push out through Group Policy or in another way.
How to do it…
So, if you're still in System Center Configuration Manager 2012, you need to get this registry...