Mapped Network Drives - exclude from weekly scans

Question

On Sophos Central 
 All our endpoints have mapped network drives to our file servers. 
 File servers are fully protected & locked down. 
 When running the weekly full scan we need to exclude the mapped drives from being scanned at the endpoints. Only the local files need to be scanned. How can i do this at the policy?

jak · Accepted Answer

Hi, Out of interest, how do you know they are scanned? Just to say, mapped drives may only be accessible to the user session that mapped them. For example: If a mapped drive is created by a user in a non-elevated command prompt; by default this mapped drive will not be visible in an elevated session for the same user 
 There is this DWORD: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System!EnableLinkedConnections = 1|0 which allows you to map drive and see it in other sessions. technet.microsoft.com/.../ee844140(v=ws.10).aspx If the schedule scan runs as local system, i.e. it is setup as a scheduled scan on the remote computer to run as local system: It may not be able to "see" the mapped drives depending on how they were mapped. Regards, 
 Jak

Aditya Patel · Answer

HI Sunith, 
 You may exclude scanning , in Treat protection under server policy 
 
 Hope this would help