Antivirus Exclusions for SharePoint
Antivirus Exclusions for SharePoint
When I am working for the projects, we have a requirement for antivirus exclusions of SharePoint and SQL. Many Administrators think that, exclusion is really required for SharePoint? Here in the article I am providing the details as per my experience.
**Explanation **
We must exclude some of These folders from antivirus scanning when you use file-level antivirus software in SharePoint. If these folders are not excluded, you may see unexpected behavior. You may receive "access denied" error messages when files are uploaded.
SharePoint Server 2013
You may have to configure the antivirus software to exclude the Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers folder from antivirus scanning for SharePoint Server 2013. If you do not want to exclude the whole Microsoft Office Servers folder from antivirus scanning, you can exclude only the following folders:
Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Data
(This folder is used for the indexing process. If the index files are configured to be located in a different folder, you also have to exclude that location.)
Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Logs
Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Bin
Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Synchronization Service
Any location in which you decided to store the disk-based binary large object (BLOB) cache (for example, C:\Blobcache)