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Sign up for Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

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Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management is available as a standalone and as an add-on for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 customers. How you sign up for the Defender Vulnerability Management trial depends on whether you already have Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2.

Note

This offering isn't currently available to:

  • US Government customers using GCC, GCC High, and DoD
  • Microsoft Defender for Business customers

Note

Trials will be available to customers using the New Commerce Experience (NCE) for a 30 day period. After the 30 day period customers will be able to purchase Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management through NCE.

Try Defender Vulnerability Management Standalone

If you don't have Defender for Endpoint Plan 1 or Plan 2, or Microsoft 365 E3, you will sign up to trial the Defender Vulnerability Management Standalone trial.

Important

You must be logged into the tenant as a global administrator to perform this task.

To sign up:

  1. Log in as a global admin to the tenant where the Defender Vulnerability Management public preview trial service will be added.
  2. Visit Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Public Preview Trial.
  3. Follow the prompts to sign in. This will differ depending on whether you already have a Microsoft 365 subscription or not.
  4. Once you have signed in, select the Try now button to confirm your order of the 180 day subscription of the Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Public Preview trial.
  5. Select Continue. You'll now be directed to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

Note

Once you activate the trial it can take up to 4 hours for Defender Vulnerability Management to be fully available in your tenant.

Try Defender Vulnerability Management Add-on trial for Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 customers

If you already have Defender for Endpoint Plan 2, sign up to the Defender Vulnerability Management Add-on trial to get access to the additional capabilities. To sign up:

  1. Visit Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Add-on Trial.
  2. Follow the prompts to sign in. This will differ depending on whether you already have a Microsoft 365 subscription or not.
  3. Once you have signed in, select the Try now button to confirm your order of the 90 day subscription of the Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Add-on trial.
  4. Select Continue. You'll now be directed to the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.

Note

Once you activate the trial it can take up to 6 hours for the new features to become available in the portal.

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