Query Details

Mandatory update of MMA agent on Windows devices for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

MDE MMA Update

Query

// MMA Agents end of life
DeviceTvmSoftwareInventory
| where SoftwareName == "monitoring_agent"
| where (SoftwareVersion startswith "10.22" and parse_version(SoftwareVersion) < parse_version("10.22.10056.0"))
    or (SoftwareVersion startswith "10.20" and parse_version(SoftwareVersion) < parse_version("10.20.18053.0"))
    or (parse_version(SoftwareVersion) < parse_version("10.19.101770.0"))

About this query

Mandatory update of MMA agent on Windows devices for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Query Information

Description

Upgrade to the latest version of the Windows Log Analytics / SCOM agent (MMA) by February 1st, 2023

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) running on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 R2/2016 (that have not yet been upgraded to the unified solution) has a dependency on the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA).

References

Message Center

Microsoft 365 Defender

To identify affected machines in your environment, you can run the following query in advanced hunting:

Explanation

The query is used to identify machines in an environment that need to be updated to the latest version of the Windows Log Analytics / SCOM agent (MMA) by February 1st, 2023. This update is necessary for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) running on certain Windows operating systems. The query checks the software version of the MMA agent and identifies machines that have versions older than specified thresholds.

Details

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Released: June 4, 2023

Tables

DeviceTvmSoftwareInventory

Keywords

DevicesIntuneUser

Operators

where|==startswithparse_version<

Actions

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