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Thursday, March 4, 2010

Antivirus scanning exclusions for WSS / SharePoint on Windows 2008 / R2

Microsoft’s KB952167 (Folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning when you use a file-level antivirus program in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 or in SharePoint Server 2007) provides information on files & folders that need to be excluded by antivirus scanning. However, this article contains references to Windows 2003 paths, which are different from Windows 2008 paths.

Here is a list of paths I have created for Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 / R2:

 

Windows 2003

Windows 2008

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Service Extensions\

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Service Extensions\

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\

C:\Windows\Temp\WebTempDir

C:\Windows\Temp\WebTempDir

C:\Documents and Settings\MOSSFarmService\Local Settings\Temp\

C:\Users\MOSSFarmService\AppData\Local\Temp\

C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles

C:\WINDOWS\system32\LogFiles

C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Local Settings\Temp

C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Temp

   

C:\Documents and Settings\MOSSFarmService\Local Settings\Application Data

C:\Users\MOSSFarmService\AppData

C:\Documents and Settings\MOSSFarmService\Local Settings\Temp

C:\Users\MOSSFarmService\AppData\Local\Temp

   

C:\Documents and Settings\SPSSPAppPool\Local Settings\Application Data

C:\Users\SPSSPAppPool\AppData

C:\Documents and Settings\SPSSPAppPool\Local Settings\Temp

C:\Users\SPSSPAppPool\AppData\Local\Temp

   

C:\Documents and Settings\SPAppPool1\Local Settings\Application Data

C:\Users\SPAppPool1\AppData

C:\Documents and Settings\SPAppPool1\Local Settings\Temp

C:\Users\SPAppPool1\AppData\Local\Temp

   

C:\Documents and Settings\sqlsrv\Local Settings\Application Data

C:\Users\sqlsrv\AppData

C:\Documents and Settings\sqlsrv\Local Settings\Temp

C:\Users\sqlsrv\AppData\Local\Temp

   

C:\Documents and Settings\SPCAAppPool\Local Settings\Application Data

C:\Users\SPCAAppPool\AppData

C:\Documents and Settings\SPCAAppPool\Local Settings\Temp

C:\Users\SPCAAppPool\AppData\Local\Temp

   

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Data

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Data

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Logs

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Logs

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Bin

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\12.0\Bin

C:\Windows\Temp

C:\Windows\Temp