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Onboarding servers to MDE after September 2022
Paul_Huijbregts marysia_k HeikeRitter (Just mentioning a few of the employees active in the community in the hope that someone knows something) So I am rather confused how to handle MDE in ser...
This link also lists supported environments as Azure VMs and Azure Arc-enabled machines, so I am thinking that not using Arc is counted as an unsupported environment at this point, or will be count as such soon.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/integration-defender-for-endpoint
I noticed this too, and I'm also deeply suspicious that it's not supported.
It makes sense for Microsoft to require Arc for on-prem VMs as it's much more solid implementation, but can be costly unfortunately.
The weird things is that I was made aware of this method by someone in the past few weeks (no, not reddit!), it wasn't one I stumbled across by trial and error.
That screenshot is super useful actually and I'll contact Microsoft to try and get some confirmation.
It makes sense for Microsoft to require Arc for on-prem VMs as it's much more solid implementation, but can be costly unfortunately.
The weird things is that I was made aware of this method by someone in the past few weeks (no, not reddit!), it wasn't one I stumbled across by trial and error.
That screenshot is super useful actually and I'll contact Microsoft to try and get some confirmation.
- Azure Arc is free to use with Defender for Servers, so as long as you only use it for this, there should not be any additional cost.
- Ah ok, my mistake. I thought there were additional costs somewhere using Azure Arc.