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Treat this document as a focused evidence review: Manage Defender for Identity sensor status, health, updates, and proxy settings together. Only the official source and traced locations below supply facts. Confirm applicability before acting.

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Source fact:

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The official Manage and update Microsoft Defender for Identity sensors from Microsoft supports the following bounded statements:

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The source support ends with the statements listed above. Use them to examine Defender for Identity workspaces, sensors, directory-service accounts, action accounts, network paths, roles, and deployment health in the applicable environment, not to imply a wider guarantee.

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What the source does not establish

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Portal status and update controls require documented permissions and do not replace server monitoring, change records, or rollback planning. The citation is not a substitute for observed state, authorization, compliance evidence, or dependency health. Examine Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, domain-controller resources, network capture, cloud connectivity, and security operations before translating the source into an operational decision.

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Applicability questions

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DSE recommendation:

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DSE recommends using the cited source as the evidence anchor for this decision. Make the source, asset scope, owner, and expected outcome explicit in the review record. Record the source location, examined part of Defender for Identity workspaces, sensors, directory-service accounts, action accounts, network paths, roles, and deployment health, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.

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An implementation decision needs an owner, approved window, prechecks, observable outcome, stop authority, and rollback path. Validate Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, domain-controller resources, network capture, cloud connectivity, and security operations before and after the test, and store only sanitized operational evidence.

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Verification and evidence

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Evidence should let another reviewer reproduce this decision. Retain observations beside the traced locations Opening scope statement; Sensor details description. Favor sensor inventory, service and action-account permissions, health alerts, connectivity tests, portal state, and controlled detection tests, linked to stable identifiers, time, and operator.

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Close the review only when the evidence, exception handling, resulting action, and after-state are linked. Schedule a new review after material technical, organizational, incident, or source changes; today’s observation is not a continuing guarantee.

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Official references

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Make the source, asset scope, owner, and expected outcome explicit in the review record. Record the source location, examined part of Defender for Identity workspaces, sensors, directory-service accounts, action accounts, network paths, roles, and deployment health, observed and expected states, owner, and reason for deviation.\nAn implementation decision needs an owner, approved window, prechecks, observable outcome, stop authority, and rollback path. Validate Active Directory, Windows DNS, time, certificates, domain-controller resources, network capture, cloud connectivity, and security operations before and after the test, and store only sanitized operational evidence.\nVerification and evidence\nEvidence should let another reviewer reproduce this decision. Retain observations beside the traced locations Opening scope statement; Sensor details description. 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