diff --git a/images/fedora-intune/defender.yaml b/images/fedora-intune/defender.yaml
index ce12384..73561d3 100644
--- a/images/fedora-intune/defender.yaml
+++ b/images/fedora-intune/defender.yaml
@@ -26,11 +26,6 @@ add-files:
   - ["mdatp-firstboot.service", "/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdatp-firstboot.service"]
   - ["mdatp-firstboot.conf", "/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdatp.service.d/10-firstboot.conf"]
   - ["50-defender.preset", "/usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/50-defender.preset"]
-  # Defender health for the Intune compliance script, which can't query
-  # Defender itself from inside himmelblaud-tasks; see the script.
-  - ["mdatp-health-snapshot", "/usr/libexec/mdatp-health-snapshot"]
-  - ["mdatp-health-snapshot.service", "/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdatp-health-snapshot.service"]
-  - ["mdatp-health-snapshot.timer", "/usr/lib/systemd/system/mdatp-health-snapshot.timer"]
   # Enforced Defender settings (shown as "[managed]" in `mdatp health`; local
   # changes are refused): real-time protection, behavior monitoring, PUA
   # blocking, cloud protection at the "high" block level, automatic updates
@@ -62,4 +57,4 @@ postprocess:
     # Fail the build on a typo rather than ship a config Defender can't read.
     python3 -m json.tool /usr/share/mdatp-managed/mdatp_managed.json > /dev/null
     rpm -q --qf '%{POSTIN}' mdatp > /usr/libexec/mdatp-postinst
-    chmod 0755 /usr/libexec/mdatp-firstboot /usr/libexec/mdatp-postinst /usr/libexec/mdatp-health-snapshot
+    chmod 0755 /usr/libexec/mdatp-firstboot /usr/libexec/mdatp-postinst
diff --git a/images/fedora-intune/files/50-defender.preset b/images/fedora-intune/files/50-defender.preset
index d16089b..dec91a5 100644
--- a/images/fedora-intune/files/50-defender.preset
+++ b/images/fedora-intune/files/50-defender.preset
@@ -2,5 +2,3 @@
 enable mdatp-firstboot.service
 enable mdatp.service
 enable mde_netfilter_v2.socket
-# Health snapshot for the Intune compliance script.
-enable mdatp-health-snapshot.timer
diff --git a/images/fedora-intune/files/mdatp-health-snapshot b/images/fedora-intune/files/mdatp-health-snapshot
deleted file mode 100644
index c7cf1d7..0000000
--- a/images/fedora-intune/files/mdatp-health-snapshot
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-# Save `mdatp health` fields to /run/mdatp-health/<field> for the Intune
-# custom compliance script (intune/defender-compliance.sh).
-#
-# That script runs inside himmelblaud-tasks.service, and Defender refuses to
-# answer it there: the daemon checks the calling process tree, can't read
-# /proc/<himmelblaud_tasks pid>/cmdline ("Permission denied" in
-# microsoft_defender_err.log), and the script sees no daemon. This runs from a
-# timer outside that service instead. Each file holds the raw
-# `mdatp health --field` output; the directory is replaced as a whole.
-set -euo pipefail
-
-MDATP=/usr/bin/mdatp
-DEST=/run/mdatp-health
-FIELDS=(
-  healthy
-  licensed
-  org_id
-  real_time_protection_enabled
-  behavior_monitoring
-  cloud_enabled
-  definitions_status
-  definitions_updated_minutes_ago
-  app_version
-)
-
-# Right after boot the daemon may not answer yet; give it up to 2 minutes so
-# the first snapshot isn't a false "not running".
-for _ in $(seq 1 24); do
-  [[ "$("${MDATP}" health --field healthy 2>/dev/null | tail -n1)" =~ ^(true|false)$ ]] && break
-  sleep 5
-done
-
-tmp="$(mktemp -d "${DEST}.XXXXXX")"
-trap 'rm -rf "${tmp}"' EXIT
-for field in "${FIELDS[@]}"; do
-  "${MDATP}" health --field "${field}" > "${tmp}/${field}" 2>/dev/null || true
-done
-chmod 0755 "${tmp}"
-chmod 0644 "${tmp}"/*
-
-# Swap in the new snapshot; readers see either the old or the new one.
-rm -rf "${DEST}.old"
-[[ -d "${DEST}" ]] && mv "${DEST}" "${DEST}.old"
-mv "${tmp}" "${DEST}"
-rm -rf "${DEST}.old"
-trap - EXIT
diff --git a/images/fedora-intune/files/mdatp-health-snapshot.service b/images/fedora-intune/files/mdatp-health-snapshot.service
deleted file mode 100644
index 3a06042..0000000
--- a/images/fedora-intune/files/mdatp-health-snapshot.service
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=Save Microsoft Defender health for the Intune compliance check
-After=mdatp.service
-
-[Service]
-Type=oneshot
-ExecStart=/usr/libexec/mdatp-health-snapshot
diff --git a/images/fedora-intune/files/mdatp-health-snapshot.timer b/images/fedora-intune/files/mdatp-health-snapshot.timer
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e41c50..0000000
--- a/images/fedora-intune/files/mdatp-health-snapshot.timer
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-[Unit]
-Description=Save Microsoft Defender health every 5 minutes
-
-[Timer]
-# Early, so the compliance check at the first sign-in after boot finds a
-# snapshot; Himmelblau doesn't check again for 8 hours.
-OnBootSec=20s
-OnUnitActiveSec=5min
-
-[Install]
-WantedBy=timers.target
diff --git a/images/fedora-intune/intune/defender-compliance.sh b/images/fedora-intune/intune/defender-compliance.sh
index 78f4163..a274493 100755
--- a/images/fedora-intune/intune/defender-compliance.sh
+++ b/images/fedora-intune/intune/defender-compliance.sh
@@ -2,30 +2,26 @@
 # Intune custom compliance discovery script for Linux: is Microsoft Defender
 # for Endpoint (mdatp) installed, onboarded, licensed and protecting?
 #
-# Upload in Intune > Devices > Compliance > Scripts (Linux), and pair it with
-# defender-compliance.json in a Linux compliance policy (Custom compliance).
-# Himmelblau runs it as root inside himmelblaud-tasks.service and sends the
-# JSON on stdout to Intune, which evaluates it against the rules. Every setting
-# is always emitted, so a missing or stopped Defender reads as non-compliant
-# instead of as a script error.
+# Upload in Intune > Endpoint security > Device compliance > Scripts (Linux),
+# and pair it with defender-compliance.json in a Linux compliance policy
+# (Custom compliance). Himmelblau runs it as root inside
+# himmelblaud-tasks.service and sends the JSON on stdout to Intune, which
+# evaluates it against the rules. Every setting is always emitted, so a missing
+# or stopped Defender reads as non-compliant instead of as a script error.
 
 MDATP=/usr/bin/mdatp
-# Under Himmelblau, Defender won't answer `mdatp health` from this script, so
-# a root timer may save the fields in /run/mdatp-health (the fedora-intune
-# image does). Used when under 20 minutes old, otherwise mdatp is asked.
-SNAPSHOT=/run/mdatp-health
 
-if [[ -n "$(find "${SNAPSHOT}/healthy" -mmin -20 2>/dev/null)" ]]; then
-  raw_field() { cat "${SNAPSHOT}/$1" 2>/dev/null; }
-else
-  raw_field() { "${MDATP}" health --field "$1" 2>/dev/null; }
-fi
+# Defender won't answer `mdatp health` started from inside himmelblaud-tasks
+# (it can't read that process while checking the caller), so ask through
+# systemd, which runs mdatp as its own child. Elsewhere, ask mdatp directly.
+health="$(systemd-run --quiet --wait --pipe --collect "${MDATP}" health 2>/dev/null)"
+grep -q '^healthy' <<< "${health}" || health="$("${MDATP}" health 2>/dev/null)"
 
-# Print one `mdatp health` field without quotes or a trailing " [managed]".
-# Unlicensed or unonboarded, mdatp prints "ATTENTION: ..." lines first.
+# Print one field of the `mdatp health` output ("name : value") without
+# quotes or a trailing " [managed]".
 field() {
-  raw_field "$1" | grep -v '^ATTENTION' | tail -n1 \
-    | sed -e 's/ \[managed\]$//' -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//'
+  grep -m1 "^$1 *:" <<< "${health}" \
+    | sed -e 's/^[^:]*: *//' -e 's/ \[managed\]$//' -e 's/^"//' -e 's/"$//'
 }
 
 bool() {