Defender for Endpoint P2 License question

Good morning!

I’m trying to find you a direct answer that applies to this license, but I can say definitively that this behavior occurs with other licenses as well.

For example, I work with customers who only want to purchase Business Standard or Premium suites of licenses for their users, but they want the full security and compliance protections available with the E5 license. What we typically recommend is that 1 E5 license be purchased for the environment so we can get access to all those features, and then assign the rest of their users the business standard or premium licenses.

This gives us, the MSP, the ability to put in place all of the security and compliance features we need to protect the customer, without the customer having to spend a ton of money since the singular E5 unlocks those capabilities by simply existing in the environment.

At best guess right now, having just one defender for endpoint p2 is unlocking all the features you’re describing to detect these devices, onboard them, and apply policies. But the per user subscription is likely necessary for other features of the license, the the maximum number of registered devices or something.

Here’s a nice table comparing P1 and P2. Hope this helps!

https://www.o365cloudexperts.com/defender-for-endpoint-plan-1-2-comparison/