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Windows Defender AV for Server 2012 R2 and 2008 R2 | Microsoft Defender ATP Onboarding
I am planning to onboard windows server 2012 R2 and 2008 R2 on MDATP. Currently the servers have Trend Micro as existing AV solution and we need to uninstall it. Request if someone can let me kno...
2008/2012 don't support Windows Defender, only SCEP.
You can manage SCEP with GPO or SCCM.
Check out this article from Joe Stocker on this:
https://www.thecloudtechnologist.com/defender-for-endpoint-mdatp-for-windows-servers/
Thijs Lecomte Thanks this is helpful.
Found one more article which says installing Desktop Experience on these servers would enable Defender - https://yellowduckguy.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/windows-server-2012-how-to-add-desktop-experience-feature/
- This is not the Defender you hope to have then.
I hadn't seen this. But 2012 R2 doesn't support Defender, only SCEP