Elastic Defend not recognized from Windows Server operating system

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Hello,
we have encountered this problem
On all Windows Server machines where we have installed the Elastic Agent with their Elastic Defend policy, Defend isn’t recognzed as antivirus software
I searched on internet and it seems that the problem is that Windows Server don’t have Windows Security Center component like desktop version
Is there any solution even a manual one, to register Elastic Defend as antivirus software?

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Is there any solution even a manual one, to register Elastic Defend as antivirus software?

Unfortunately, the APIs to register as the system antivirus do not exist on Windows Server operating systems. If your intention is to disable Windows Defender so it doesn’t run alongside Elastic Defend, you can use group policy.

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Thank you for your answer
Is there a plan to mitigate this problem in future releases?

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We can’t. Because of how Microsoft designed Windows Server, there is no concept of registering as AV, so we can’t register as AV. We referenced this in our docs:

Windows Server versions are not supported. Antivirus registration requires Windows Security Center, which is not included in Windows Server operating systems.

What is the underlying problem you are trying to solve?

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