Disable & skip Exchange anti-malware scanning

Use the command line hypervisor to disable malware filtering on a specific Exchange server:

To disable malware filtering, run the following command:

& $env:ExchangeInstallPath\ Scripts\ Disable-Antimalwarescanning.ps1

To re-enable malware filtering, use Enable-Antimalwarescanning.ps1

To verify that malware filtering is disabled, run the following command and confirm that it returns the value False:

Get-TransportAgent "Malware Agent"

Use the command line hypervisor to temporarily bypass malware filtering on a specific Exchange server:

To temporarily bypass malware filtering, run the following command:

Set-MalwareFilteringServer-BypassFiltering $true

To restore malware filtering, run the following command:

Set-MalwareFilteringServer-BypassFiltering $false

To verify that malware filtering is bypassed, run the following command and confirm that it returns the value True:

Get-MalwareFilteringServer | Format-List BypassFiltering

For AntiSpamAgent, you can uninstall the agent by running the following command

Uninstall-TransportAgent-Identity "Content Filter Agent" Uninstall-TransportAgent-Identity "Sender Id Agent" Uninstall-TransportAgent-Identity "Sender Filter Agent" Uninstall-TransportAgent-Identity "Protocol Analysis Agent"