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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...
Hi hmannila2021,
Were you able to get a definitive answer on this one.
I could still find the SKU in the pricelist and have raised a support case but seems like the MS team handling my case doesn't know. Everything on the web is routing us towards Defender for Cloud but my customer needs it for on premises servers off course and doesn't use Azure.
Any information on this would be really helpful.
Hi Bharat07 - here is what Microsoft have cleared up in the ticket I raised:
Defender for Endpoint for Servers is now end of life, but it’s still included in the Price Files Microsoft send us at the start of each calendar month. This was previously an add-on license for any on-prem servers (rather than clients).
Therefore, any customer already purchasing this license, can renew the license (as stated by Renato from Microsoft). But for any customer not already purchasing this license, for their on-prem servers they should use:
- Defender for Servers (even if they *only* have on-prem servers)
- or Defender for Business Servers (which only covers on-prem servers).
Defender for Endpoint for Servers is now end of life, but it’s still included in the Price Files Microsoft send us at the start of each calendar month. This was previously an add-on license for any on-prem servers (rather than clients).
Therefore, any customer already purchasing this license, can renew the license (as stated by Renato from Microsoft). But for any customer not already purchasing this license, for their on-prem servers they should use:
- Defender for Servers (even if they *only* have on-prem servers)
- or Defender for Business Servers (which only covers on-prem servers).