Sign up for Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management public preview

Applies to:

• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Plan 2
• Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
• Microsoft 365 Defender

Important

Some information in this article relates to prereleased products/services that might be substantially modified before they are commercially released. Microsoft makes no warranties, express or implied, for the information provided here.

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:

• Customers using the New Commerce Experience (NCE)
• US Government customers using GCC, GCC High, and DoD
• Microsoft Defender for Business customers

• If you don't have Defender for Endpoint Plan 1 or Plan 2, or Microsoft 365 E3, sign up to try the Defender Vulnerability Management Standalone trial.
• If you already have Defender for Endpoint Plan 2, sign up to try the Defender Vulnerability Management Add-on trial.

If you have any questions related to the trial sign up and onboarding process, contact us (mdvmtrial@microsoft.com).

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 120 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 the Defender Vulnerability Management Add-on Public Preview Trial for Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 customers

If you already have Defender for Endpoint Plan 2, sign up to trial 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 Public Preview 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 120 day subscription of the Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Add-on Public Preview 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.

Next steps

• When you're ready to get started, visit the Microsoft 365 Defender portal (https://security.microsoft.com) to start using Defender Vulnerability Management.
• Learn more about Defender Vulnerability Management.