Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Cloud and workloadsOn Demand Malware Scanning
In brief
The documentation heading for filtering malware scans to specific items no longer includes “(Preview).”
What Defender admins need to know
No administrator action is stated as required.
Summaries are generated from the documentation change itself.
Documentation change
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- Monitoring progress: You can track scan progress through the Azure portal or API. You get details on the number of objects scanned, skipped objects, data volume, malicious objects detected, scan status, and duration.
- Completion and results: After all objects are scanned, the system marks the scan as complete and provides a summary of findings. You can also use the API to query the details of the last scan.
Filter scans to specific items (Preview)
You can scope an on-demand scan to specific blobs or files instead of scanning the entire storage account. Pass filters in the request body when you initiate a scan by using the REST API.
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The on-demand scanning process includes the following stages and behaviors: - **Monitoring progress**: You can track scan progress through the Azure portal or API. You get details on the number of objects scanned, skipped objects, data volume, malicious objects detected, scan status, and duration.
- **Completion and results**: After all objects are scanned, the system marks the scan as complete and provides a summary of findings. You can also use the API to query the details of the last scan.
-### Filter scans to specific items (Preview)
+### Filter scans to specific items
You can scope an on-demand scan to specific blobs or files instead of scanning the entire storage account. Pass filters in the request body when you initiate a scan by using the REST API.