Defender Offboarding using Intune - The EDR way!
Every now and then, I get asked by customers for ways of offboarding devices from Defender for Endpoint for various reasons. Most of the time it involves troubleshooting of some sort which requires going off MDE altogether. While I normally recommend to use put the device in troubleshooting mode, sometimes, it is just not the way to go. And therefore, one finds themselves offboarding the devices. Until now, I had been using the OMA-URI way of offboarding a device in Intune, but recently I stumbled upon another way which I had no idea it ever existed. Did you know that you can use EDR to offboard a device? Surprise, surprise. I always used EDR under endpoint security in Intune, to use the blob connector to onboard a device. However, the same EDR profile also allows offboarding devices using value from the WindowsDefenderATP offboarding package. Here is how you can go about - 1. Head over to the Microsoft Defender admin portal. 2. Navigate to Settings > Endpoints > Offboardin...