McAfee Security for Microsoft Exchange 8.6.0

Create on-demand scan task

Schedule an on-demand scan task to find or remove viruses and banned content in mailboxes, at convenient time intervals.

Before you begin

Make sure that you do not remove the MSMEODuser from active directory, that was created during the product installation. This user is required for performing on-demand scans on mailboxes.

Task
1 Click Dashboard | On-Demand Scans. The On-Demand Scans page appears.
2 Click New Scan. The Choose when to scan page appears.
3 From Choose a time tab, specify when you want the scan to run. The available options are:
Not scheduled — Select this if you have not decided on when to perform the on-demand scan or disable the schedule for an existing on-demand scan.
Once — Specify the date and time to schedule an on-demand scan once.
Hours — Select this to schedule the task based on hours, if you have to execute the on-demand scan task for more than once in a day. For example, let's consider that the current time is 14:00 hours and you have to create an on-demand scan task that satisfies these conditions:
The on-demand scan must start exactly at 14:30 hours
The on-demand scan must occur twice a day

To achieve this, specify 12 for hours and 30 for minutes.

Days — Select this to schedule the task based on how often the scan must occur in a week. For example, if you want the on-demand scan to occur once in three days, specify 3 under day(s) and select the time when the task starts.
Weeks — Select this to schedule the task based on how often the scan must occur in a month. For example, if you want the on-demand scan to occur bi-weekly, specify 2 under week(s), select the days and time when the task starts.
Months — Select this to schedule the task based on how often the scan must occur in a year. For example, if you want the on-demand scan to occur on every second Saturday of each month, select second from On the drop-down list, Saturday from of drop-down list, then select all the months and time when the task starts.
Enable Stop task after it has run for <n> hour(s) <n> minute(s), to stop an on-demand scan task if it exceeds the specified hours.
4 Click Next. The Choose what to scan page appears. The available options are:
Scan all folders — Select this to scan all the mailboxes in the Exchange server.
Scan selected folders — Select this to scan only specific mailboxes in the Exchange server.
Scan all except selected folders — Select this to scan all except specific mailboxes that are added to the Folders to scan list.
In Microsoft Exchange 2013 and 2016, the public folder appears as part of the mailbox and on-demand scanning is always recursive for public folders. In Microsoft Exchange 2010, you can select public folder at folder or subfolder level to run recursive on-demand scanning.
5 Click Next. The Configure scan settings page appears.
6 From the Policy to use drop-down list, select any of the policy option based on your scan requirement.
Policy Description
Default The default settings for all scanners and filters except these scanners:
DLP and Compliance Scanner
File Filtering
Find Viruses Anti-virus settings and filters. These policies provide an easy means to check the viral content in databases.
Remove Viruses Anti-virus settings and filters. These policies provide an easy means to remove the viral content in databases.
Find Non-Compliant Content Content scan settings. These policies are useful if you want to see the effect of newly created/assigned content scan rules.
Remove Non-Compliant Content Content scan settings. These policies are useful if you want to see the effect of newly created/assigned content scan rules and remove non-compliant content.
Full Scan Settings for all scanners and filters. These policies are typically used for scanning at regular intervals.

The settings and actions to take are specified in on-demand policies found under Policy Manager.

7 Select the Resumable Scanning and Restart from last item options to run the on-demand scan task in multiple sessions on mailbox database.
Sometimes, you might want to run an on-demand scan task for all mailboxes. Scanning all mailboxes in one session might take longer time and that can affect the system's productivity. Instead of scanning all mailboxes in one session, you can schedule the scan for multiple sessions.
8 On Exchange Server, you now have the option to perform a granular on-demand scan task. You can narrow down the scan using these fields:
Subject Date range
From Mail size
To Attachments
Message ID Unread items
Recipients
Performing a granular on-demand scan saves you time and fetches specific scan results.
9 Click Next. The Enter a name for the scan page appears.
10 Specify a meaningful on-demand scan task name, based on the policy you selected in the previous page. For example, if you are creating an on-demand scan task to do a full scan over the weekend, specify the task name as Weekend Full Scan.
11 Click Finish, then Apply.
By performing these steps, you have successfully created an on-demand scan task.