{"id":30839,"date":"2025-05-23T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/?p=30839"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:56:12","slug":"onboard-a-windows-device-into-microsoft-defender-for-endpoints-with-intune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/23\/onboard-a-windows-device-into-microsoft-defender-for-endpoints-with-intune\/","title":{"rendered":"Onboard a Windows Device into Microsoft Defender for Endpoints with Intune"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Defender Onboarding with Microsoft Intune Policy<\/h6>
Intune policy is the recommended approach for onboarding devices into Microsoft Defender. Before starting the device enrollment process, we need to create a dynamic device group that includes only Windows client devices and excludes server devices.<\/div>
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Follow the below steps to onboard defender automatically with Intune Policy.<\/div>

Login to Microsoft Intune on https:\/\/intune.microsoft.com\/<\/a><\/p>

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Click on Devices and then click on Configurations.<\/p>

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Now click on Create button and click on New Policy.<\/p>

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Now Select the Platform and Profile Type then search the template name “Microsoft Defender for Endpoint”<\/strong> then click on Create.<\/p>

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Enter the Policy name you want to provide.<\/p>

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Select not configured as showing in shreenshot.<\/p>

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Select the deployment group where you want to onboard the defender. Then click on next.<\/p>

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No need to change anything here, click on Next.<\/p>

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Now, review your policy and click on create.<\/p>

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After successfully create the policy, search the policy name to verify that policy is created.\u00a0<\/p>

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Device On-boarding validation<\/h6>

To validate the device is on-boarded successfully, you can validate from the Security Center or from the device side.\u00a0<\/p>

  1. Login to Security Center https:\/\/security.microsoft.com\/<\/li>
  2. \u00a0Go to Assets then Devices, here we can see all the devices are on-boarded into the defender.\u00a0<\/li><\/ol>

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    Validate Defender onboarding status from Device.\u00a0<\/h6>

    Check the registry key for\u00a0Onboarding Status <\/strong>should e 1<\/strong><\/p>

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    Windows Defender for Endpoint Client Onboarding Defender Onboarding with Microsoft Intune Policy Intune policy is the recommended approach for onboarding devices into Microsoft Defender. Before starting the device enrollment process, we need to create a dynamic device group that includes only Windows client devices and excludes server devices.\u00a0Follow the below steps to onboard defender automatically […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30867,"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-30839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mem"],"views":6,"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30839","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=30839"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30860,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30839\/revisions\/30860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/endusersupports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}