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MS Defender for Enpoint Service name is invalid
MS Defender Antivirus Service
MS Defender Antivirus Network Inspection Service
Are all running. There is some mysterious MS Defender for Endpoint Service that all the docs keep referring to but don't know where that is located or how to get that enabled.
Frustrating to say the least.
The onboarding script if you used the local one should have set the computer to pull the Endpoint Client (known as the Microsoft Windows Sense Client). I found this same issue on a number of computers. I got it to work by doing the following
The first this is to see if the client is even installed you can run the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool with the following options:
/Online /Get-CapabilityInfo /CapabilityName:Microsoft.Windows.Sense.Client
The results I got back showed me that the client was installed on the computer.
Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 10.0.26100.1150Image Version: 10.0.26100.2314
Capability Identity : Microsoft.Windows.Sense.Client~~~~
Name : Microsoft.Windows.Sense.Client
State : Not Present
Display Name : Microsoft Defender for Endpoint SenseClient
Description : SenseClient for MDE
Download Size : 0 bytes
Install Size : 0 bytesThe operation completed successfully.
To get it avaliable on the computer I ran the Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool with the following options:
/Online /add-capability /CapabilityName:Microsoft.Windows.Sense.Client
That ran for about 5 to 10 minutes. After it was finished you will need to reboot. After the reboot I re-ran the onboarding script and it completed as it should have.
