Anti-Virus Exclusion Guidelines for Microsoft Applications

As noted in Sunbelt's log, Rod Trent kindly shared this important tuning guide that can improve performance for corporate AV product implementations 

http://sunbeltblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/guidelines-for-antivirus-exclusions-for_30.html

QUOTE: Earlier in the week, I posted a good set of guidelines for enterprise administrators from Microsoft for antivirus exclusions. Unfortunately, the page that I linked to got pulled. However, Rod Trent was kind enough to share the document (see link below):

Anti-Virus Exclusion Guidelines for Microsoft Applications
http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/alex/gblog/avguidelines.doc

QUOTE: WHY EXCLUDE -- It is important to achieve a balance between ensuring a secure and virus free server environment while also not interfering with reliability and performance of each server. A lack of exclusions with regards to virus scanning has traditionally been one of the main causes of outages with regards to applications and services. In addition, virus scanning is often a cause of performance issues.