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Folders that may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning for Microsoft TFS 2010

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This article includes information about folders that may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning on computers running Team Foundation Server 2010 and Team Foundation Server Proxy 2010. It also provided links to Microsoft knowledge base articles that cover anti-virus folder exclusions that may be defined on servers running deployments of Micorsoft SQL Server and SharePoint that have been integrated with Team Foundation Server 2010.

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Directories to exclude from virus scanning

Team Foundation Server 2010 Folder Exclusions:
For better performance of source control operations, you may have to configure the antivirus software to exclude the following folders and subfolders from antivirus scanning on computers running Team Foundation Server 2010. Please note that this is not a product requirement for Team Foundation Server 2010.

Note: The Drive placeholder represents the drive letter in which you have installed Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010. Typically, this drive letter is C.

Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010\Application Tier\Web Services\_tfs_data

Team Foundation Proxy Server 2010 Folder Exclusions:
For better performance of source control operations, you may have to configure the antivirus software to exclude the following folders and subfolders from antivirus scanning on computers running Team Foundation Proxy Server 2010. Please note that this is not a product requirement for Team Foundation Proxy Server 2010.

Note: The Drive placeholder represents the drive letter in which you have installed Microsoft Team Foundation Server Proxy 2010. Typically, this drive letter is C.

Drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010\Version Control Proxy\_tfs_data

For more information SQL Server Folder Exclusions, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

309422 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309422)

Guidelines for choosing antivirus software to run on the computers that are running SQL Server

For more information SharePoint Folder Exclusions, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

952167 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/952167/ )

Certain folders may have to be excluded from antivirus scanning when you use a file-level antivirus program in SharePoint

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