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Create and Manage Device Groups area is missing from my tenant
I tried following along with the documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/machine-groups?view=o365-worldwide#create-a-device-group but I do not have a ...
- i think your license is not covering what are you looking for , i suggest you to open a ticket with MS security team to check your tenant and your license requirements
i think your license is not covering what are you looking for , i suggest you to open a ticket with MS security team to check your tenant and your license requirements
I received a reply from MS Support. The Device Groups functionality is not directly available in Defender for Business despite it including features from P1 and P2. The DfB groups are managed elsewhere. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender-business/mdb-create-edit-device-groups?view=o365-worldwide
I'm seeing this issue in multiple client tenants, even ones with E3/E5 licensing. The "Permissions" blade just doesn't exist in Settings > Endpoints.
- Hey there, sorry no progress was made. I gave up on digging into it as it was taking up more time than I could afford to give.
What I can say is, Defender for Business is definitely a very confusing platform in regard to features provided and their documentation doesn't help very well. - Hi, Did you ever make progress on this one? I have the same issue, however under Configuration Management > Device Confguration, it says 'You are currently using Intune to manage your security policies', therefore I have to make the groups in Intune... Even though I've don't this using a Dynamic Group I am still unable to see any groups in the dropdown under App Tags > Scoped Profiles when trying to create a new profile.
