Hello Experts,

Anti virus exclusion on biztalk servers?

Is this recommended?

Thanks

Yagya

It is recommended not to have anti-virus on your BizTalk Servers yes.

If IT operations still requires it, you need at least to exclude the temp folder for the user running the Host Instances, since there will be a lot of spooling going on there, which might make the anti-virus software freak out.

Morten la Cour

Hi Yagya,

Antivirus software real-time scanning of BizTalk Server executable files and any folders or file shares monitored by BizTalk Server receive locations can negatively affect BizTalk Server performance. You can install anti-virus software in BizTalk servers by excluded the real-time scanning for BizTalk polling folders, IIS virtual directories used by BizTalk, Any file extensions used, i.e. if you are consuming xml messages exclude scanning of .xml files, SQL Server files etc.

You can reference this article from Nino on this subject:

http://ninocrudele.me/2012/09/21/about-biztalk-solution-assessment-antivirus/

You can find it in the BizTalk Server Performance Optimizations Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10855

Rachit

Hi,

This is the snippet of the Antivirus related recommendation for the Biztalk Server:

Configure antivirus software to avoid real-time scanning of BizTalk Server executables and file drops

Antivirus software real-time scanning of BizTalk Server executable files and any folders or file shares monitored by BizTalk Server receive locations can negatively impact BizTalk Server performance. If antivirus software is installed on the BizTalk Server computer(s), disable real-time scanning of non-executable file types referenced by any BizTalk Server receive locations (usually .XML, but can also be .csv, .txt, etc.) and configure antivirus software to exclude scanning of BizTalk Server executable Files

For more information visit this link-

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd722840(v=bts.10).aspx

Thanks

Abhishek

Hi Yagya,

Good discussion on this topic can be find in the following link, don't want to duplicate this thread.

MSDN Forum: Antivirus exclusions for Biztalk