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Security settings Management for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint - Defender for Endpoint MDE client analyzer - [Error] EnrollmentStatusCheck 122034

MDEClient Analyzer

In a recent case I was trying to deploy MDE policies like AV policies and ASR policies for devices not onboarded to Intune like my Windows Servers . 

I noticed that in some cases the policies were showing as Pending in Intune report so I decided to run MDEClientAnalyzer tool to troubleshoot and find out what was wrong . 

The thing is that MDEClientAnalyzer showed an error which stated : 

122034 EnrollmentStatusCheck Policies assignment failure The device was successfully onboarded to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and was able to download the endpoint security policies from MEM. However, there was a failure during the assignment of the policies.

I started checking the docs to find the error code 122034 or the description of the error but came out with nothing .

The problem was that my servers were Windows RDS hosts . If you check the official documentation you will find a statement which says :

Security settings management doesn't work on and isn't supported with the following devices:

Non-persistent desktops, like Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) clients
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD and formerly Windows Virtual Desktop, WVD)
Domain Controllers
32-bit versions of Windows

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/mem/intune/protect/mde-security-integration

That said this is the error you get when your server falls in either of these categories .In my case Non-persistent desktops . 

So the error was not so self explanatory but now we know RDS servers MDE settings / policies cannot be configured through the new management feature called Security settings Management.