Wildcard usage in Global Ignore Locations

Hello-  You can ignore all files of a specific name wherever they reside by entering a filen ame without a path into a Global Ignore List and assigning that list to your System Policy.

You can do this by going under your policy or policies, and under Search Locations -> Custom Folders you add the path as an Exclude there.

To help you get started, I have included some common areas that we Exclude and Include for Windows and Mac. The nice thing is that if you put all of these into one policy and either have it apply to All Endpoints, or use that policy as a template to import for individual policies for tags, the Custom Folders can go with it. This way you are not retyping this list multiple times.

I would also recommend taking a look at your results on the console, do some filtering or a report to find so other areas that would good to exclude because of false positives.

This is what we consider to be the minimal exclusion list for Mac and Windows.

C:\Program Files
C:\Program Files (x86)
C:\Windows
C:\dell
C:\Drivers
C:\i386
C:\MSOCache
C:\System Volume Information
C:\winnt
C:\programdata
C:\Users\System
C:\Users\Default
/Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb
/.fseventsd
/.Spotlight-V100
/Applications
/bin
/Developer
/etc
/Library
/mach_kernel
/opt
/private
/sbin
/System
/usr

We also have Includes for:

C:\Windows\Temp
C:\Windows\CSC

Hope that helps,

Mike 

They do not show up in the client UI, but when you run a search, you should see that they aren't searched.  If you are having an issue, please feel free to open a ticket at support.identityfinder.com