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Defender for Identity deployment

Timelines and exceptions

Timeline

From the capture of today 12:46 UTC
Published timing needs confirmation September 2026 most recent · 2 weeks ago
  1. or later; update release September 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
  1. 2 weeks agomonth windowupdate release · Patch Tuesday 8 Sep 2026

Requirements, exceptions and scope

  • GuidanceExceptionScope1 condition1 passage
    Install Defender for Identity sensors on all domain controllers, including read-only domain controllers (RODCs). Also install sensors on Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Active…
  • Select your deployment methodRequirementScopeRecommendation1 condition2 passages
  • Review action cardsRequirement1 condition2 passages
  • Choose a deployment flowException1 condition1 passage

Extracted automatically from Microsoft's wording. Confirm dates, conditions and whether they apply to you in the source before acting; a month or quarter is a window, not a day.

How this timeline changed

Changes between ChangeIntel's readings of the page, between commits of its source file where Microsoft publishes it, in Internet Archive copies of pages that keep no other history, and entries from Microsoft's own change log (dated as Microsoft dates them). Edits between readings that neither records are unknown.

  1. No longer on the page Any supported server typein Select your deployment methodseen by ChangeIntel
    September 2026 or later
  2. Scope added Select your deployment methodseen by ChangeIntel
  3. Postponed +2 months Any supported server typein Select your deployment methodseen by ChangeIntel
    July 2026 or laterSeptember 2026 or later
Observed history and review priority

Captured today 12:46 UTC; extracted today 12:46 UTC. Extractor: microsoft-1/9/fc65ebeb286710c0a830833db8a7e5de7e266b79981fe9c7c34479be9369ad3c.

Review priority. Dates changed in observed revisions · Previously extracted guidance is missing from a later capture · Extracted assertions require review · Applicability or exceptions require review

1 date changes and 0 condition changes across 2 compared revisions. Suggested check interval: 6 hours.

Earlier unavailable versions and edits between checks are unknown. A missing statement requires review; it does not mean the policy was cancelled. Recovered historical statements are not original revision snapshots.

Retained observations · 4

Compact evidence remains available after full document bodies expire. Earlier extractions can have different vocabulary or capture limitations.

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