What are the use cases of "Turn on device onboarding" in Compliance portal in M365 which is Microsoft Purview?

Question

What are the use cases of "Turn on device onboarding" in Compliance portal in M365 which is Microsoft Purview?

Vinod Survase 4,781

What are the use cases of "Turn on device onboarding" in Compliance portal in M365 which is Microsoft Purview?

See below screenshot.

User's image

Shweta Mathur 30,296 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-09-15T11:53:43.8066667+00:00

Hi @Vinod Survase ,

Just checking in to see if the below answer helped. If this answers your query, please don’t forget to click "Accept Answer" which might be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
Vinod Survase 4,781 Reputation points

2023-09-18T12:09:17.05+00:00

Hi Shweta Mathur

Thanks for your reply. we have already onboarded devices in Endpoints. The screenshot which I am showing here is taken from Microsoft Purview portal under Setting and Onboarding Devices tab.

So it was not clear to me as we have already onboarded devices in Defender endpoint still it is showing in Purview portal so wanted to know the use case and what we can achieve if onboard from there?

1 answer

Your answer

Shweta Mathur 30,296 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-09-15T11:53:43.8066667+00:00

Hi @Vinod Survase ,

Just checking in to see if the below answer helped. If this answers your query, please don’t forget to click "Accept Answer" which might be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
Vinod Survase 4,781 Reputation points

2023-09-18T12:09:17.05+00:00

Hi Shweta Mathur

Thanks for your reply. we have already onboarded devices in Endpoints. The screenshot which I am showing here is taken from Microsoft Purview portal under Setting and Onboarding Devices tab.

So it was not clear to me as we have already onboarded devices in Defender endpoint still it is showing in Purview portal so wanted to know the use case and what we can achieve if onboard from there?

Answer 1

Hi @Vinod Survase ,

The use case of turning on device onboarding is to onboard devices to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The benefits of onboarding the devices are so that you can monitor and protect sensitive items on a device.

Once devices are onboarded to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, you will be able to leverage the following security features:

Endpoint behavioral sensors which collect and process behavioral signals from the operating system and send this sensor data to your cloud instance of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.

Cloud security analytics to monitor behavior signals and translate them into insights, detections, and recommended responses to advanced threats.

Threat intelligence: to identify attacker tools, techniques, and procedures and generate alerts when observed.

If you have previously deployed Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, all the devices that were onboarded during that process will be listed in the Devices list already. In your screenshot I can see that there are no devices listed.

Additional references:

Onboard Windows devices into Microsoft 365 overview

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

If the information helped you, please Accept the answer. This will help us as well as others in the community who may be researching similar information. Otherwise let me know if you have further questions.

Vinod Survase 4,781 Reputation points

2023-09-14T17:14:49.6766667+00:00

Hi Marilee Turscak-MSFT

Thanks for your reply. we have already onboarded devices in Endpoints. The screenshot which I am showing here is taken from Microsoft Purview portal under Setting and Onboarding Devices tab.

So it was not clear to me as we have already onboarded devices in Defender endpoint still it is showing in Purview portal so wanted to know the use case and what we can achieve if onboard from there?

Share via

What are the use cases of "Turn on device onboarding" in Compliance portal in M365 which is Microsoft Purview?

1 answer

Your answer