Security News > 2023 > February > Microsoft: For better security, scan more Exchange server objects

Microsoft is recommending that Exchange server users scan certain objects for viruses and other threats that until now had been excluded.

Microsoft late last month urged Exchange server users to make sure their systems are up-to-date with the latest Cumulative and Security updates and hardened against cyberattacks.

Removing the latest objects from the exclusion list will further increase Exchange server security, according to the Exchange Team.

There are still a lot of items on the Exchange server exclusion list.

"The biggest potential problem is a Windows antivirus program might lock or quarantine an open log file or database file that Exchange needs to modify," Microsoft wrote in another post this week.

That said, the Exchange Team wrote that removing the aforementioned files and processes from the exclusion list won't affect the stability or performance of the server when using Microsoft Defender on Exchange Server 2019 and running the latest Exchange server updates.

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