Windows Exclusion Question

Hello Ingo,

the usual introduction: These are recommendations, Microsoft carefully avoids making calling them requirements - they mention potential problems when not using exclusions but also warn about additional risks if you do (there are several threads in this forum discussing this).

As Blocker has stated in another thread you can't use System Variables (this too has been covered several times here). Thus you'd have to use the specific correct paths. Furthermore wildcards are accepted only in a very few places.

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs\Res*.log

This would have to be something like C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs\Res????????????????.log (an asterisk is only allowed as placeholder for the name or the extension, not as a pre- or suffix and not for both - use a reasonable number of ?s) 

%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.*\Reporting Services\ReportServer\Bin\ReportingServicesService

This is a process exclusion - from the KB article it is not clear though what this means. Anyway you'd have to explicitly give the instance name, you can't use an asterisk

Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL*\FTDATA

Also no asterisk; if there is no drive letter (which is valid) it must start with a backslash; to exclude the folder (and everything in and below) a trailing backslash is required (but the GUI adds it if you have selected Folder)

Guess you can figure out how to write the other two.

Finally I'd suggest to carefully read the More Information (especially the first two paragraphs) in KB309422 - it's quite clearly saying that you should not just "blindly" apply the suggested exclusions.

HTH

Christian

Hello Ingo,

the usual introduction: These are recommendations, Microsoft carefully avoids making calling them requirements - they mention potential problems when not using exclusions but also warn about additional risks if you do (there are several threads in this forum discussing this).

As Blocker has stated in another thread you can't use System Variables (this too has been covered several times here). Thus you'd have to use the specific correct paths. Furthermore wildcards are accepted only in a very few places.

%windir%\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs\Res*.log

This would have to be something like C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Datastore\Logs\Res????????????????.log (an asterisk is only allowed as placeholder for the name or the extension, not as a pre- or suffix and not for both - use a reasonable number of ?s) 

%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft SQL Server\MSRS11.*\Reporting Services\ReportServer\Bin\ReportingServicesService

This is a process exclusion - from the KB article it is not clear though what this means. Anyway you'd have to explicitly give the instance name, you can't use an asterisk

Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL*\FTDATA

Also no asterisk; if there is no drive letter (which is valid) it must start with a backslash; to exclude the folder (and everything in and below) a trailing backslash is required (but the GUI adds it if you have selected Folder)

Guess you can figure out how to write the other two.

Finally I'd suggest to carefully read the More Information (especially the first two paragraphs) in KB309422 - it's quite clearly saying that you should not just "blindly" apply the suggested exclusions.

HTH

Christian