Understand that whichever way you choose to manage your policies is up to you in many ways this is just an aesthetic choice. It just means the polices for Microsoft Defender will be managed right here in the Microsoft 365 Defender security center, rather than via the Endpoint Manager portal. You can either continue using MEM to deploy your Microsoft Defender policies, or, you can switch to using the Microsoft Defender for Business “ simplified configuration process.” What is that?! If you are like most of us, you probably already have some policies in Microsoft Endpoint Manager scoped to users and devices in your organization. I will proceed with the assumption that you will qualify for Automatic onboarding. In this case you can just expand each option for more instructions about the onboarding process, which you would need to complete yourself, later. Without the minimum number of devices, you would see the manual onboarding process screen, which looks something like this: In my demo tenant, I have four devices, so I just barely clear the requirement. They do not all have to be Windows devices, but only Windows devices will be automatically onboarded during this setup process. In order to get the “Automatic onboarding” option on this next page, you must have a minimum of three devices already enrolled with Microsoft Endpoint Manager. You should be greeted with the first-run wizard experience. To activate the product, visit the Microsoft 365 Defender security center: and go to Settings > Endpoints. Once you have the preview activated in your tenant, you will assign the licenses, just as you would for any other product (however, note that in the future of General Availability, this product will be included in your Microsoft 365 Business Premium license, so no need to assign additional licenses in that case). If you have not yet had a chance to see Microsoft Defender for Business in action, then read along! To get your hands on a copy of this product yourself, the preview sign-up is here. I have been playing with the new product this past month since getting access to the preview.
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