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- [The capability](quickstart-onboard-machines.md#connect-on-premises-machines-by-using-the-azure-portal) to onboard new non-Azure servers to Defender for Servers via Log Analytics workspaces will be removed from both the **Inventory** and **Getting Started** blades.
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> [!NOTE]
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> We recommend current users with servers onboarded through the [legacy method](quickstart-onboard-machines.md#connect-on-premises-machines-by-using-the-azure-portal) to activate Defender for Servers Plan 2 on their Azure subscriptions connected to those servers. This will prevent any loss of security coverage associated with the Log Analytics agent retirement.
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> We recommend that current customers, who have onboarded on-premises servers using the [legacy approach](quickstart-onboard-machines.md#connect-on-premises-machines-by-using-the-azure-portal), should now connect these machines via Azure Arc-enabled servers. We also recommend enabling the Defender for Servers Plan 2 on the Azure subscriptions to which these servers are connected.
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>For those customers who have selectively enabled Defender for Servers Plan 2 on specific Azure VMs through the [legacy approach](quickstart-onboard-machines.md#connect-on-premises-machines-by-using-the-azure-portal), we recommend enabling the Defender for Servers Plan 2 on the Azure subscriptions of these machines. You can then exclude individual machines from the Defender for Servers coverage using the Defender for Servers [per-resource configuration](tutorial-enable-servers-plan.md#enable-defender-for-servers-at-the-resource-level).
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> These steps will ensure there is no loss of security coverage due to the retirement of the Log Analytics agent.
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To maintain security continuity, we advise customers with Defender for Servers Plan 2 to enable [agentless machine scanning](enable-agentless-scanning-vms.md) and [integration with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint](enable-defender-for-endpoint.md) on their subscriptions.
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