Defender for Endpoint

[WazzaRabitt]

Could someone please direct me to the correct place for answers to the following;

My understanding that users that are allocated a Defender for Endpoint P1/P2 license (individually or via the MS365 A3/A5 license bundling) are allowed 5 concurrent usage of Defender for Endpoint P1/P2.

Some commentary I have read says that it is fair usage to dislocate this licensing from the individual users where there are more devices than users in the organization and thus allow the entire fleet to be covered.

For example, 10k users would be allowance upto of 50k devices that MDE could be installed on with no further costs.

Is this the correct interpretation here? (I do not think so but need to find the Product Term/ document which supports me).

[ClaudioStallone · Accepted solution]

Hi @WazzaRabitt ,

As I understand it, this is the same as licensing "Microsoft Office 365 for Apps for Enterprise".

So a user who has assigned a Microsoft Defender for Endpoint license can cover his 5 main devices, but only his own devices (notebook, PC, smartphone, Mac).

The license is assigned to a user and not to a device, as it is a user-based license.

Therefore, you need to define here how many users it has and accordingly obtain as many Microsoft Defender for Endpoint licenses.

Here the Product Term:
https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/terms/productoffering/MicrosoftDefenderforEndpoint/MCA 

"Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Eligible Licensed Users may use Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on up to five concurrent devices."