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[Question]: AgentService.exe blocked by Microsoft Defender #5330

@marco-skizza

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@marco-skizza

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Dear Azure DevOps Agent Team

After restarting our servers today, the AgentService.exe didn't start up again:

Error 5: Access is denied.

It seems that Microsoft Defender has blocked the file.

Is there anything you can do about this?

Kind Regards
Marco

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Occurred/tested with Agent Versions 4.258.1 and 4.261.0 on Windows Server 2022

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dev.azure.com (formerly visualstudio.com)

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Windows Server 2022

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