Unable to create an evaluation XDR environment

[Yash_Mudaliar]

Following the below article to create and get access to Microsoft Defender XDR, I have procured the necessary licenses and also enabled all the other Defender workloads with the needed unified permission settings. I have also done the necessary configurations in Sentinel as well to get the XDR experience but not able to do so! If anybody has been able to successfully create an evaluation environment or have access to Defender XDR, kindly help me out here!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender/eval-create-eval-environment?view=...

[#2]

Hello Yash, can you please share more details what is not working? Your screenshot shows the Defender portal, incl Endpoint and Identity from what I can see in the navigation, which means you have access.

[#3]

@HeikeRitter, Hello Heike, thanks for the response. I think I am missing the 'Defender XDR' branding on the portal (defender.microsoft.com) which is still appearing as Defender (security.microsoft.com). As far as sections are considered, I think I am missing the SIEM (Sentinel) here.

[#4]

Hi Yash, please don't worry about the branding too much - it will take some time to reflect product name changes across our assets 🙂 defender.microsoft.com and security.microsoft.com will both bring you to the Defender portal. For the missing Sentinel link in the navigation, this is because the integration is currently in private preview, and you will have to wait until it becomes public preview - hopefully soon 😉

[#5]

Hi @Yash_Mudaliar,

As@HeikeRitter says, the Unified Portal experience is currently available on an invitation-only basis.

In the mean time, you can read more information about the process of integrating the two products at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/defender/microsoft-sentinel-onboard?view=o3....

Also be sure to check out the videos from Ignite that are linked to from this recent blog post on the topic: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sentinel-blog/become-a-microsoft-unified-soc-platfo....

Kind regards,

Rutger

[#6]

Ahh, I get it. Thank you Heike. Hoping to get the access soon!

[#7]

Sure thing. Thanks for your kind response and helpful links Rutger!