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How to deploy the Orbital Agent on Windows
How to deploy the Orbital Agent on Windows

This guide will walk you through all the steps you need to know to deploy the Orbital Agent on a device running Windows

Daniel Sampson avatar
Written by Daniel Sampson
Updated over a week ago

Defense.com's Orbital Agent gives you a host of capabilities including:

  • Automated tracking of the assets in your environment

  • Asset profiling, including their operating system and installed applications

  • Rapid response to incidents via our device isolation feature

  • Automated configuration checks to help you stay compliant

Before you begin, the Orbital Agent has the following system requirements. Please ensure the devices you're deploying to meet these requirements.

Operating System

Windows 10 & Windows 11 (64-bit)

CPU

1 GHz dual-core processor

RAM

Minimum 4GB

Disk

500GB free disk space

Manual Deployment

Deploying the Endpoint agent into your environment is super straightforward. If you're looking to do a small deployment by manually installing the agent on each host, you can do so by following the steps below.

  1. Log in to your my.defense.com account

  2. Select Detection from the navigation on the left-hand side

  3. Click Orbital Agent from the sub-navigation

  4. From the Orbital Agent index page, click Installation Links in the top right-hand corner

  5. You'll then be presented with a modal where you can select the Endpoint Group, retrieve the Group Installation key and Download Agent Installer

  6. Once you've downloaded and run the installer, you'll be presented with the installation interface, click Next to begin the installation

  7. Select your installation folder, this will default to C:\Program Files\Defensecom\Orbital and click Next

  8. You'll then be asked to select where shortcuts are stored, this will default to a folder called Orbital

  9. Next, enter your Company Key which can be found on the Orbital Agent Installation modal you saw during step five

  10. Once the key has been entered and verified successfully, click Install to complete the installation

  11. Finally, click Finish and the installation is complete 🎉

Local admin access is required to complete the installation - you may be prompted to enter your username and password by Windows User Access Control

Automated Deployment

Deploying Orbital to multiple machines using Mobile Device Management tools such as Intune is quick and easy. To do this, simply deploy the Orbital installer and run the following command replacing <installer filepath> with the full file path for the installer <key> with your Company Key.
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"installer filepath" --accept-licenses --confirm-command install GroupKey=<key>

And that's it! You've successfully deployed Defense.com's Orbital Agent 🎉

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