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Defender for Servers 2016
Im working with a team of Server Admins who are unable to install the Windows Defender on Win Server 2016 machines, as the image they were built upon was customized and the Windows Defender role is n...
Hi mike412
What do you mean by "role is not available for install via the server roles"? Did you try to install it via PowerShell?
Install-WindowsFeature -Name Windows-Defender
No, MatejKlemencic that was not tried, or aleast as far as I know. Im not certain this would work as the servers were built, on a custom image that excluded win defender
mike412Could you specify the error message you're getting during installation? To my knowledge, these two options (GUI or PowerShell) are the only available methods for installing Windows Defender on Windows Server 2016 and later versions.