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# Connect your non-Azure machines to Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Defender for Endpoint
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Defender for Cloud allows you to directly onboard your non-Azure servers by deploying the Defender for Endpoint agent. This provides protection for both your cloud and non-cloud assets under a single, unified offering.
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## Enabling direct onboarding
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Enabling direct onboarding is an opt-in setting at the tenant level. It affects both existing and new servers onboarded to Defender for Endpoint in the same Microsoft Entra tenant. Shortly after enabling this setting, your server devices will show under the designated subscription. Alerts, software inventory, and vulnerability data are integrated with Defender for Cloud, in a similar way to how it works with Azure VMs.
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Enabling direct onboarding is an opt-in setting at the tenant level. It affects both existing and new servers onboarded to Defender for Endpoint in the same Microsoft Entra tenant. Shortly after you enable this setting, your server devices will show under the designated subscription. Alerts, software inventory, and vulnerability data are integrated with Defender for Cloud, in a similar way to how it works with Azure VMs.
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Before you begin:
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1. Go to **Defender for Cloud** > **Environment Settings** > **Direct onboarding**.
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1. Switch the **Direct onboarding** toggle to **On**.
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1. Select the subscription you would like to use for servers onboarded directly with Defender for Endpoint
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1. Select the subscription you would like to use for servers onboarded directly with Defender for Endpoint.
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1. Select **Save**.
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:::image type="content" source="media/onboard-machines-with-defender-for-endpoint/onboard-with-defender-for-endpoint.png" alt-text="Screenshot of Onboard non-Azure servers with Defender for Endpoint.":::
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You've now successfully enabled direct onboarding on your tenant. After you enable it for the first time, it might take up to 24 hours to see your non-Azure servers in your designated subscription.
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You now successfully enabled direct onboarding on your tenant. After you enable it for the first time, it might take up to 24 hours to see your non-Azure servers in your designated subscription.
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### Deploying Defender for Endpoint on your servers
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## Current limitations
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- **Plan support**: Direct onboarding provides access to all Defender for Servers Plan 1 features. However, certain features in Plan 2 still require the deployment of the Azure Monitor Agent, which is only available with Azure Arc on non-Azure machines. If you enable Plan 2 on your designated subscription, machines onboarded directly with Defender for Endpoint have access to all Defender for Servers Plan 1 features and the Defender Vulnerability Management Addon features included in Plan 2.
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- **Multi-cloud support**: You can directly onboard VMs in AWS and GCP using the Defender for Endpoint agent. However, if you plan to simultaneously connect your AWS or GCP account to Defender for Servers using multicloud connectors, it's currently still recommended to deploy Azure Arc.
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- **Simultaneous onboarding limited support**: For servers simultaneously onboarded using multiple methods (for example, direct onboarding combined with Log Analytics workspace-based onboarding), Defender for Cloud makes every effort to correlate them into a single device representation. However, devices using older versions of Defender for Endpoint might face certain limitations. In some instances, this could result in overcharges. We generally advise using the latest agent version. Specifically, for this limitation, ensure your Defender for Endpoint agent versions meet or exceed these minimum versions:
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- **Simultaneous onboarding limited support**: Defender for Cloud makes a best effort to correlate servers onboarded using multiple billing methods. However, in certain server deployment use cases, there might be limitations where Defender for Cloud is unable to correlate your machines. This might result in overcharges on certain devices if direct onboarding is also enabled on your tenant.
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The following are deployment use cases currently with this limitation when used with direct onboarding of your tenant:
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| Location | Deployment use case |
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| All | <u>Windows 2012, 2016:</u> <br />Azure VMs or Azure Arc machines already onboarded and billed by Defender for Servers via an Azure subscription or Log Analytics workspace, running the Defender for Endpoint modern unified agent without the MDE.Windows Azure extension. For such machines, you can enable Defender for Cloud integration with Defender for Endpoint to deploy the extension. |
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| On-premises (not running Azure Arc) | <u>Windows Server 2012, 2016</u>: <br />Servers running the Defender for Endpoint modern unified agent, and already billed by Defender for Servers P2 via the Log Analytics workspace |
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| AWS, GCP (not running Azure Arc) | <u>Windows Server 2012, 2016</u>: <br />AWS or GCP VMs using the modern unified Defender for Endpoint solution, already onboarded and billed by Defender for Servers via multicloud connectors, Log Analytics workspace, or both. |
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Note: For Windows 2019 and above and Linux, agent version updates have been already released to support simultaneous onboarding without limitations. For Windows - use agent version 10.8555.X and above, For Linux - use agent version 30.101.23052.009 and above.
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|Operating System|Minimum agent version|
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|Windows 2019| 10.8555|
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|Windows 2012 R2, 2016 (modern, unified agent)|10.8560|
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|Linux|30.101.23052.009|
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## Next steps
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