Best Practices for Windows Defender with PowerShell cmdlets

You can get the Defender cmdlets by using the following commands:

• PS C:\> (Get-MpPreference).ExclusionPath
• Gets exclusion path of Defender.
• PS C:\> (Get-MpPreference).ExclusionProcess
• Gets exclusion processes of Defender.
• PS C:\> Add-MpPreference –ExclusionPath “full_path_of_the_folder_or_file”
• Excludes a folder or file to the exclusion list.
• PS C:\> Add-MpPreference –ExclusionProcess “full_path_of_executable_programs”
• Excludes files opened by the processes.
• PS C:\> Remove-MpPreference –ExclusionPath “full_path_of_the_folder”
• Removes a folder from the exclusion list.