Defender Mixed Licensing

[DaithiG]

Hi,

We have E5 and Defender P2 licenses for all staff. We will be hiring a few contractors for a few months and I was planning to give them spare Business Premium licenses we have.

Will those users get Defender for Business Premium and will I be able to assign them policies via the portal. It seems we can only have either the Defender P2 portal or Defender Business portal?

[#2]

When you go to the Defender XDR portal settings > Endpoint > Licenses.

Here you can see which MDE licenses are in use and thus you can also set who gets which licenses.