Defender for Identity deployment
Observed content change
4 edited passages (51 words changed). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines, prerequisites, permissions, supported platforms, network endpoints. Review the source to confirm the effect.
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[removed: For e][added: E]ligible domain[removed: controllers][added: controllers, AD FS, AD CS, and Microsoft Entra Connect servers] running Windows Server 2019 or[removed: later,][added: later support] sensor[removed: v3.x supports onboarding][added: v3.x. You can onboard these servers] with or without Microsoft Defender for Endpoint deployment.[removed: Other eligible identity-role servers require Defender for Endpoint onboarding.]
… for Endpoint, activate sensor v3.x directly.[removed: For domain controllers that aren't onboarded to Defender for Endpoint,][added: Otherwise,] use the sensor v3.x onboarding package.[removed: AD FS, AD CS, and Microsoft Entra Connect servers must be onboarded to Defender for Endpoint before activation.]Any supported server type Windows Server …
… onboarding through Defender for Endpoint. Eligible[removed: domain controllers][added: servers] can instead use the sensor v3.x …
If an eligible[removed: domain controller][added: server] isn't onboarded to Defender for Endpoint, …
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Sections to inspect
Up to 12 section headings from retained before/after evidence. The current source may have changed again.
Why this was flagged
The changed words, with a few words around them, matched these rule categories: dates and deadlines, prerequisites, permissions, supported platforms, network endpoints. These matches identify subjects to assess; they do not establish a policy change or applicability.
Observation details · observed today 12:46 UTC
- Observed by ChangeIntel
- today 12:46 UTC
- Source update metadata
- today 12:39 UTC
- First observed on this installation
- 8 Oct 23:13 UTC
- Last successful check
- today 18:58 UTC
- Next check due
- 21 Oct 00:58 UTC
Observation time is not publication time, and a comparison does not establish an effective date. Full source bodies are not published; this page holds generated summaries, section headings and, as the page's license allows, Microsoft's changed wording. A documentation edit does not confirm feature availability in an environment.
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Timeline
From the capture of today 12:46 UTC- 1 date
- 4 undated sections
- 4 with conditions
- 1 date move seen
- 3 recorded changes
- or later; update release September 2026 Published timing is qualified; effectiveness is not confirmed.
- 2 weeks agomonth windowupdate release · Patch Tuesday 8 Sep 2026
Requirements, exceptions and scope
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…
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.
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September 2026 or later -
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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
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- today 12:46 UTC · 10 candidates
- 18 Oct 23:50 UTC · 11 candidates
- 12 Oct 23:53 UTC · 9 candidates
- 8 Oct 23:13 UTC · 10 candidates
Related public evidence
No related evidence found in this installation's recent collection. This does not establish that no announcement exists.
Retained observations
- today 12:46 UTC · shown above
- 18 Oct 23:50 UTC
1 new passage (about 20 words), 2 edited passages (21 words changed), 1 removed passage (12 words). The changed wording mentions dates and deadlines, prerequisites, supported platforms. Review the source to confirm the effect.
- 12 Oct 23:53 UTC
8 removed passages (about 50 words). The changed wording mentions prerequisites. Review the source to confirm the effect.
- 8 Oct 23:13 UTC
Baseline for retained history; no earlier retained text to compare.
What changed
First observed 18 Oct 2026- 18 Oct 2026 Any supported server typeJuly 2026 or later → September 2026 or later
- 18 Oct 2026 SummaryMicrosoft's guidance publishes 1 date, from July 2026 to July 2026 (Any supported server type). → Microsoft's guidance publishes 1 date, from September 2026 to September 2026 (Any supported server type).
The most recent 100 field changes are listed. Complete recorded revisions are kept separately.
Cite this recorded revision to keep the same title, summary, facts and links when the page changes.
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