{"id":30819,"date":"2026-05-02T14:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/?p=30819"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:27:53","slug":"how-to-onboard-a-windows-device-into-microsoft-defender-for-endpoints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/how-to-onboard-a-windows-device-into-microsoft-defender-for-endpoints\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Onboard a Windows Device into Microsoft Defender for Endpoints"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Windows Defender for Endpoint Client Onboarding<\/b><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Windows device must be enrolled into Defender to activate Defender for endpoint client.\u00a0<\/p>

We have to make sure all the required pre-requires are completed before start device enroll.<\/p>

Pre-requisites-<\/h6>
  1. Defender for endpoint license (Plan 1, Plan 2, E3 or E5).<\/li>
  2. Should have Security Administrator or Global Administrator Right.<\/li>
  3. \u00a0Device should should have minimum O.S. version.<\/li><\/ol>
    Architecture, how the device enrollment works.<\/h6>

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    Device onboarding Tool.<\/p>

    Endpoint<\/b><\/p><\/td>

    Tool options<\/b><\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Windows<\/b><\/p><\/td>

    Local script (up to 10 devices)<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Group Policy<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Microsoft Endpoint Manager\/ Mobile Device Manager<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    VDI scripts<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    macOS<\/b><\/p><\/td>

    Local scripts<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Microsoft Endpoint Manager<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    JAMF Pro<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Mobile Device Management<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Linux Server<\/b><\/p><\/td>

    Local script<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Puppet<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Ansible<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    iOS<\/b><\/p><\/td>

    Microsoft Endpoint Manager<\/p><\/td><\/tr>

    Android<\/b><\/p><\/td>

    Microsoft Endpoint Manager<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>

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    Windows Defender for Endpoint Client Onboarding Windows device must be enrolled into Defender to activate Defender for endpoint client.\u00a0 We have to make sure all the required pre-requires are completed before start device enroll. Pre-requisites- Defender for endpoint license (Plan 1, Plan 2, E3 or E5). Should have Security Administrator or Global Administrator Right. \u00a0Device […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mem"],"views":8,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30819"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30855,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30819\/revisions\/30855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}