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seth
Oct 02, 2022Iron Contributor
Defender for Endpoint Server standalone license
As of September 1, Microsoft has removed the Defender for Endpoint on Servers P1 and P2 licenses, forcing on-premises customers to use Azure ARC / Defender for Cloud! Onboarding to Azure ARC is no...
LS957458
Oct 24, 2022Copper Contributor
seth Have you learned anything new since your previous posts on how to obtain endpoint for server licensing? I'm trying to get MDE P1 for servers but defender for cloud is forcing me to P2.
Keith_Powell
Microsoft
Feb 14, 2023LS957458 - You can only have 1 type of MDS (Microsoft Defender for Server, which is part of the Microsoft Defender for Cloud solutions) plan per Azure Subscription. So, if you have already deployed MDS Plan 2 within your subscription, you won't be able to 'downgrade' other servers to Plan 1. The reverse holds true as well.
So, if you want to have a mixture of Plan 1 and Plan for your on-premises and/or in the Cloud (Azure, AWS, and/or GCP), then you need 2 Azure Subscriptions for that same single tenant. Your licensing specialist, MSFT Account Team, and/or your reseller can help you with that process.