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Usayyad
Oct 07, 2022MCT
Enroll only selected servers in Azure Defender
We have 7-8 different subscriptions and have 1000s of VM. I have enabled Azure defender for Cloud for my subscription. However I want to exclude azure defender for selected servers (Vm's). Is it poss...
juavil
Microsoft
Mar 09, 2023There is a way to enroll specific VMs only and the way this was done was by creating different VNETs that allowed only selected endpoints to be accessed. These VMs are essentially blocked from accessing the Internet while the rest of the servers are allowed access to the Internet.
Hope this helps.
Juan
Jonhed
Mar 09, 2023Iron Contributor
That will exclude them from MDE onboarding, but they will still be accruing costs according to the uptime, since the defender for servers plan will be active.