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EmilNachkov
Copper Contributor
Apr 12, 2022

Defender for Endpoint with terminated license

Hi,    What happens to the Defender for Endpoint clients/sensors if the E3 & E5 licenses are terminated? Will the device stop reporting to the MS 365 Defender portal (then "inactive", then deleted...
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Paul_Huijbregts
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Apr 19, 2022
Hi, this will have no immediate impact other than resulting in license non-compliance. Offboarding is needed to stop the device from reporting to the portal and solve the non-compliance issue.