These are the Powershell commands for exclusions on a Microsoft SQL Server on Windows 2016. This only includes the Database role, if you have Reporting, Analysis, Full Text Indexing or other roles there will be more.
The -ExclusionPath will need to be changed to what you configured in SQL on install.
Powershell must be run as administrator.
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension “.mdf”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension “.ldf”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension “.ndf”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension “.bak”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension “.trn”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension “.trc”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension “.sqlaudit”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionExtension “.sql”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionProcess “SQLServr.exe”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath “E:\Temp”
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath F:\Logs
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath G:\Data
Add-MpPreference -ExclusionPath H:\Backup
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