Windows 10: What the impact of defender full scan on servers? Please share the details.

Hi Team,1. Can we perform the full scan on workstations and servers from defender portal? If yes, Please share the details to check and test on some system. also share if any impact from the full scan on servers?2. How can we check the full scan result in the defender portal?Regards,Saurabh

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defender scans

Hi Ian,

Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

This issue might occur if you have set any task scheduler for Windows Defender.

I suggest you to delete the task for Windows defender and check if it helps.

Follow the below steps:

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  Search and open Schedule tasks.
  
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  In the left-hand menu, open the Task Scheduler Library, then select
  Microsoft >Windows >Windows Defender.
  
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  Double-click Windows Defender Scheduled Scan.
  
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  Select the Triggers panel, then select Delete.
  

Hope it helps, reply to us with the status of your issue. We will be happy to assist you.

 

Windows Defender on Server 2016: scan targets, scheduled scan and detailed logs of scans

Hi, I have these three questions:

1. What are the exact locations (paths, folders, subfolders, system files) scanned by Windows Defender Quick Scan on Microsoft Windows Server 2016?

(For example: C:\Users\AppData, C:\Windows\System32, boot sectors, memory, running processes, active TCP/IP etc... - I need a list of scan targets as complete as possible. Information that "it scans the most crucial and important files to your system" has
no value for me at all).

2. By what rule, task, or trigger the Windows Defender Scheduled Scan is running?

(In the Task Scheduler there is not defined the exact time at what the task will run. What does it mean the word "Idle" in this case? Does it mean that the task is running every time when user is not working on the computer? Or is it after 5+ minutes of
inactivity? Is it when CPU usage is below 10%, or does anybody know how it is working at all?)

3. Where - if somewhere at all - on the disk are located the scan logs created (if created) by Windows Defender?

(The real logs, no incomplete pseudo-logs from Event Viewer or MPLogs with useless information. I mean the logs, like logs created by any else anti-virus solution are: logs which contains a complete list of files checked during the scan, scan results, reasons,
time of the scan, type of the scan, rule which started the scan etc.)

Thank you very much for exact answers.

 

Windows Defender on Server 2016: scan targets, scheduled scan and detailed logs of scans

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