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new to defender for endpoint
Hello everyone. I am looking to start using defender for endpoint for our business. I find it all a bitt fuzzy and im therefore looking for help. we have a local ad with about 40 devices. We use...
There are lot of licensing options when it comes to Defender for Endpoint. E3 will give you MDE plan 1 which doesn't cover advanced Defender capabilities like EDR, AIR etc. MDE plan 2 will cover these as part of E5. I will suggest to speak to a licensing expert\partner to get your sorted.
As for the implementation, if your devices are domain joined, then at a minimum, you will need to configure the AAD connect and sync the relevant attributes. You can avoid the need for doing a full HAADJ and utilize security configuration settings in Defender to onboard and manage the devices for MDE policies, but I will recommend to HAADJ and enroll & manage devices using Intune.
As for the implementation, if your devices are domain joined, then at a minimum, you will need to configure the AAD connect and sync the relevant attributes. You can avoid the need for doing a full HAADJ and utilize security configuration settings in Defender to onboard and manage the devices for MDE policies, but I will recommend to HAADJ and enroll & manage devices using Intune.