Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Domain Controller AV Exceptions - The Final Word

The title says it all and in the spirit of keeping my blog brief, here is what you need to exclude:

D:\Windows\SYSVOL
D:\Windows\NTDS
C:\Windows\NTFRS (yes that is the C: drive, its the temporary workspace)
C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\DNS
C:\ProgramData\NTUser.POL
C:\Windows\Security\Database
C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore
C:\Windows\System32\GroupPolicy

One added note, these are not just exclusions for the usual reasons, there are a number of anti-virus products that specifically munge the ACL information on group policy files with SYSVOL including Microsoft's own AV product Forefront.

Cheers!



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