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NY_Dina
Jul 22, 2022MCT
MDE Community
Hi MDE Community, I have question related Microsoft defender for endpoint after offboarding or renamed device, And these device changed status to inactive. How to force remove/delete endpoint fro...
- Jul 22, 2022
NY_Dina It's been asked before - the MDE inventory is immutable
Don't onboard anything that you don't want hanging around - forever
If needed, spin up a demo/trial Tenant and test things there
NY_Dina
Jul 27, 2022MCT
Actually we have offboarded devices even our retention policy 180 days, Does device will remove from device inventory as the same retention policy? If like that don't anyway to force remove before retention policy because sometime it's seem messy on MDE portal. Thank you
yongrheemsft
Microsoft
Jul 27, 2022Hi NY_Dina, please review the section named "Decommissioned machines" in the following blog post:
How to use tagging effectively (Part 1)
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-endpoint/how-to-use-tagging-effectively-part-1/ba-p/1964058
Thanks,
Yong Rhee
How to use tagging effectively (Part 1)
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-endpoint/how-to-use-tagging-effectively-part-1/ba-p/1964058
Thanks,
Yong Rhee