Defender for Endpoint server onboarding
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[added: Use this guide to prepare and onboard new servers. Defender for Endpoint can help protect your organization's servers with capabilities that include posture management, threat] …
[added: For servers already running Defender for Endpoint, see Existing deployments. Those servers don't require onboarding, reinstallation, or migration to maintain their existing Defender for Endpoint] …
[added: Server Method Supported Azure VM or Azure Arc-enabled server in an enabled subscription Automatic onboarding Server you manage through an endpoint deployment tool Manual deployment] …
[added: Meet the minimum requirements for Defender for Endpoint and connectivity requirements.]
[added: Before automatic or manual deployment, review antivirus coexistence and Windows Server passive-mode requirements if another antivirus application is installed.]
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Sections to inspect
- Onboard servers to Microsoft Defender
- Choose a deployment method
- Prerequisites
- Prepare the rollout
- Integration with Microsoft Defender for Servers
- Onboard automatically
- Deploy Defender for Endpoint manually
- Onboard Windows Server, version 1803, Windows Server 2019 and later, and Azure Stack HCI OS
- Onboard Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server 2012 R2
- Associate non-Azure servers by using Direct onboarding
- Verify onboarding
- Offboard Windows servers
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