manualscan

Manual Scan

You can run a manual scan to ensure that ScanMail scans all messages in the Information Store once. Completely scanning the Information Store in this way minimizes the chance of infections from unexpected sources such as unprotected mail servers or improper configurations. Manual scanning scans the entire Information Store by default; however, you can configure ScanMail to scan any of the Mailbox Stores and Public Folder Stores. For clusters, ScanMail can scan each virtual server or all virtual servers on one node.

Note: If you have more than one storage group, you may want to disable scanning the replicated databases. Go to Manual Scan and change the databases selected for scanning.

You can perform security risk scan, attachment blocking, and content filtering through manual scanning. These filters are similar to those used during real-time scan, except some actions are not available during manual or scheduled scans.

You can specify the store database that belongs to a current virtual server. If manual scan is in progress, you cannot start a new Manual Scan process and ActiveUpdate does not interrupt Manual Scan. However, if a Scheduled Scan is in progress, starting a Manual Scan stops the scheduled scan. Scheduled scan resumes according to its schedule.

A brief description of the options available on this screen is available below.

Database selection

All databases: Select this to scan all databases including any databases you may add after this setting is configured.
Specific databases: Select this to scan databases you specify.
Refresh: Click to display the latest Mailbox databases.

Select the scan type

Security risk scan: Select this to scan for viruses/malware based on the settings.
Attachment blocking: Select this to perform a scan based on the attachment blocking settings.
Content filtering: Select this to perform a scan based on the content filtering settings.

Incremental Scan Options: Selecting multiple check boxes creates "AND" relationships between those check boxes.

Note: If all check boxes are clear, all messages in the database(s) you specify are scanned.
Scan messages delivered: Select this to scan messages delivered during a time period.

This feature is only available with Exchange Server 2010 and 2007.

Scan messages with attachments: Select this to only scan messages with attachments.

This feature is only available with Exchange Server 2010 and 2007.

Scan messages that have not been scanned: Select this to only scan messages that have not been previously scanned by ScanMail.

This feature is only available with Exchange Server 2010 and 2007.

Note: When you use ScanMail with Exchange Server 2010 and 2007, Manual Scan is only available for clustered Mailbox servers, Combo Servers (Hub Transport and Mailbox server roles), and Mailbox server roles.

CPU Usage: This feature allows you to manage performance by limiting the resources that manual and scheduled scans use.

Enable CPU usage limitation: Select to limit CPU usage and specify the maximum CPU percentage used.