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

Video: See What's New in Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 (Formerly Microsoft Office Groove)

Watch this video, providing insight into SharePoint Workspace 2010 (new version of Office Groove):

See What's New in Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 (Formerly Microsoft Office Groove)

SharePoint Workspace 2010 provides important new key features:

· SharePoint Workspace:  A new workspace type that allows you to setup a synchronization relationship with all of the supported lists and libraries from a SharePoint site.  The workspace contains site content available for you to read and edit while you are offline, and will automatically synchronize with SharePoint when you’re back online.  New lists and libraries will automatically appear in the workspace when they are created (or customized) from SharePoint.  You can take all of your favorite SharePoint sites with library/list content with you when you’re on the go.

· SharePoint Document Library Support: SharePoint Workspaces support the common SharePoint document library variants, and provide enhanced capabilities directly within the client, like: check-in and check-out, multiple content types including folders, drag and drop for document creation and organization including from Outlook or Windows Explorer, version history, and metadata/property support.  Within these libraries, Microsoft Office documents gain all sorts of new capabilities including co-authoring, automatic merging, differential sync, and more.

· SharePoint List Support: SharePoint Workspaces can contain most standard SharePoint list types, including Discussion, Announcements, Links, and custom lists.  Form previewing and editing is provided through Microsoft InfoPath 2010 technology.

· Virtual Lists through Business Connectivity Services (BCS):  Pull down and work with your content from LOB applications or other external sources.

· Views:  Both public and private views of lists and libraries are supported.

· Read & Unread, and Alert Customization: You will be notified when content changes or there are new additions to a SharePoint site that you are synchronizing through unread icons and our notification UI.  These notifications can be customized to adapt to your information needs, on a per-workspace or list/library basis.

· Content Selection: Select individual libraries or lists for synchronization.  Easy one-click setup directly from the default SharePoint browser UI.  Recommended sites are shown during workspace creation, including those published by your SharePoint administrator.

· Broad Connectivity:  Our synchronization with SharePoint supports numerous connectivity options, including Windows domain authentication, Forms-Based authentication, SSL configurations, and Alternative Access Mappings - for internal, extranet, and Internet scenarios.

· Ribbon:  Office 2007 pioneered this new way of working within your application, and we’ve adopted it as well.  It has been designed to optimize our key scenarios while ensuring consistency across cross-product scenarios.

· Office Backstage: This new feature of Office 2010 provides a new view to increase the discoverability and usability for the contextual work that happens beyond the workspace.

· Cutting-Edge Collaborative Authoring:  SharePoint Workspaces support seamless collaborative authoring sessions for Word and PowerPoint documents that are hosted in SharePoint document libraries.

· Instantly Find Documents, Lists, Attachments, and More:  Your local documents and lists are easier to find and organize than ever before.  Workspaces are automatically indexed and available through the familiar Windows Search user interface.

· Access Workspace Documents Directly from Office Applications: Offline documents can be opened or saved from Office applications through integration with the Windows Explorer.  Navigate local folders like they were part of your Windows drive.

· New Contact Card with Integrated Presence:  Office Communicator streamlines communication by allowing you to utilize its capabilities within the SharePoint Workspace application.  Communicator presence is displayed directly in the Groove workspace member pane.

· Standard Office Features:  We included numerous other features that are consistent with Office 2010 applications like:  a 64-bit native client; support for IPv6 networking; Single Sign-On authentication; new language support including full IME, mirroring, and complex scripts; native integration with standard management tools like Active Directory; continuous help publishing through Office Online; and much more.

Source: MSDN Blogs

What’s new in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, available in CTP this summer, will provide the following benefits:

Capitalize on Hardware Innovation

Increase in the number of logical processors supported from 64 up to 256.  This will provide customers with more choices for obtaining single system scalability with high performance.

Optimize Hardware Resources

Dashboard viewpoints provide insight into utilization and policy violations to help identify consolidation opportunities, maximize investments and maintain healthy systems.

Manage Efficiently at Scale

Through new extensions in SQL Server Management Studio, organizations will gain insights into their growing applications and databases and help ensure higher service levels through policies and dashboard viewpoints.

Enhance Collaboration Across Development and IT

Streamline Application Lifecycle Management through integration with Visual Studio. A new project type enables a single unit of management for packaging database schema with application requirements. This ensures higher quality application development while also accelerating deployments, moves, and changes over time.

Improve the Quality of Your Data

Centralized approach to defining, deploying, and managing master data can ensure reporting consistency across systems and deliver faster more accurate results across the enterprise.

Manage User-Generated Analytical Applications

Comprehensive management thru Microsoft SharePoint 2010 gives IT the ability to manage and secure all BI assets, thus freeing the original authors to focus on the priorities of the business.

SharePoint 2010 Management Console

• Provides a single, comprehensive management tool through Microsoft SharePoint 2010 that gives IT administrators the ability to set server policies and monitor Self Service BI activities

• IT can manage and secure all BI assets, freeing the original authors to focus on business priorities

• Dashboard views to monitor access and utilization of analyses and reports as well as track patterns of hardware usage to help ensure the right security privileges are applied and user generated solutions are continuously available, up-to-date, and secured

Report with Ease

Decrease time and costs developing reports by giving users the ability to design their own queries, reports and charts through powerful and intuitive authoring and ad hoc reporting capabilities.

Get More Out of Your Data

New support for geospatial visualization can produce new insights and discoveries when geospatial data is combined with corporate data for reporting and analysis.

Build Robust Analytical Applications

With the in-memory analytics add-in for Microsoft Excel 2010, business users can quickly access, analyze and summarize vast amounts of data directly in Excel without the assistance of the IT department.

Consolidate Your Data

New “data mash up” capabilities will simplify time consuming data gathering and consolidation tasks.  Integrate data from multiple sources, including corporate databases and external sources, using powerful tools within Microsoft Excel.

Share and Collaborate with Confidence

New collaboration tools make it easy to share analytic applications and reports through Microsoft Office SharePoint, where they are refreshed automatically, maintained, and made accessible to others.

Source: Microsoft.com