Microsoft Defender for Endpoint fails policy deploy to Windows 10 Enterprise VM

grbonk hello,

You have properly setup your Defender for Cloud environment however as you unfolded yourself at your last screenshot, Defender for Cloud deploys Microsoft Defender for Servers agent which is not supposed to be present in workstations (Windows 10 and 11 endpoints). Defender for Cloud supports only server environments including Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2016, RHEL, Ubuntu LTS etc through Microsoft Defender for Servers.

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In your case, you will have to deploy the MDE agent from Defender XDR > Settings > Endpoints > Onboarding > Choose "Windows 10 and 11". If you are looking for an automation in deploying the MDE in your Windows 10 Azure VMs, you will probably have to engage with Intune.

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