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Intune Customer Success
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Windows Server devices managed by Defender for Endpoint now recognized as a new OS platform

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Intune_Support_Team
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Mar 14, 2023
Currently devices on the Windows Server platform don’t support mobile device management (MDM) and can’t enroll in Microsoft Intune. With the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) Security Management ...
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TomReisi
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Jan 15, 2025

And what about hybrid joined servers?

Those in my case sometimes come back as "Windows", also the "deviceOSVersion" is not always there which makes creating a dynamic group for server impossible unfortunately...

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    Nallukka
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    Feb 10, 2025

    We are also experiencing issues with dynamic groups and the Windows Server value for the Device OS Type. And the root cause is the same, Hybrid Joined Servers gets only the Windows value to the OS attribute. We are now digging more into removing the hybrid join value from the Join Type attribute from the problematic servers. Weird that there has not been a answer or comment to your post.

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      TomReisi
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      Feb 10, 2025

      Please let me know if you are able to figure this out!