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Process exclusions not working for MSSense.exe
I have an issue where builds often fail due to sharing violations caused by defender. The sequence is: link.exe (MS VC++) creates the exe file being built MsSense.exe opens the exe file just buil...
How are you setting your process exclusions?
I know in our case (using group policy) it turned out it was very picky about how we had the exclusions written.
You set the name to the full path to the executable you want to exclude, and then you set the data to "0". (we had no luck just using the executable by itself)
So when all is said and done, what populates into registry are REG_SZ keys where the name is the full path, and the data value shows 0. Been working for us for many months now.
I know in our case (using group policy) it turned out it was very picky about how we had the exclusions written.
You set the name to the full path to the executable you want to exclude, and then you set the data to "0". (we had no luck just using the executable by itself)
So when all is said and done, what populates into registry are REG_SZ keys where the name is the full path, and the data value shows 0. Been working for us for many months now.