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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Server isolation capability
For operating systems that use the Microsoft Monitoring Agent, isolation is not available.XPaulo
shoando So after some tests, you're right
I'm able to isolate 2019 Servers just as Windows 10. There is no need to install an agent
For Windows 2016, you need the MAM agent to get the events in your tenant.
Even though the GUI gives you the possibility to isolate a device or run an AV scan, it does not do anything. You see the actions pending in the action center and can't even undo them (as such they remain greyed out after you clicked on them for that specific server)
XPauloI provided the same feedback already. The interface shows "start automated investigation" for all the supported operating systems, while it only works for the latest W10/W2019 releases. They should remove that action for unsupported devices to avoid confusion.
The next thing you see is that a suspicious investigation was noticed in the alert list ... 🙂This is good information as I am struggling to find a single official Microsoft doc that states that explicitly. All Microsoft documentation talks about how EDR is possible for older server platforms 2008/2012/2016 using the MMA agent. They should really clarify that it's only Threat Detection not full EDR as no response actions possible in MMA agent.
That would save people like us few hours of wasted time and frustration.
