Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Offline Onboarding for Windows 10 via a Proxy

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint – Offline Onboarding for Windows 10 via a Proxy

Getting your devices into Defender for Endpoint is referred to as onboarding and can be done in lots of different ways, depending on the scenario.  The tools you use for Windows Server 2008 R2, for example, are different from the tools you use for Windows Server 2019, which are different from the tools you use for Windows 10, and so on. The common denominator behind most onboarding methods is internet connectivity.  Your device connects…
Register Domain-Joined Computers as Devices – The Redundant and Broken Hybrid Azure AD Join GPO

Register Domain-Joined Computers as Devices – The Redundant and Broken Hybrid Azure AD Join GPO

The group policy object Register domain-joined computers as devices, or Automatically workplace join client computers in older templates, was previously a requirement for enabling Hybrid Azure AD Join.  After configuring Azure AD Connect and your Seamless SSO GPOs, this had to be enabled. Since Windows 10 1607 ("Anniversary Update"), in Azure AD Connect environments, on-premises Active Directory joined computers become Azure Active Directory registered when a synchronised user signs in to a synchronised computer;…