Prepare your containers and workloads for protection. See Section III, Preparing Protection Targets and Sources.
In an Active Directory domain, follow these best practices before you run the first full replication:
Ensure that you update Windows (run Windows Update) on the source workload before you run the first full replication.
Ensure that you set up your antivirus software with the recommended file and folder exclusions described in the Microsoft KB 822158 article: Virus scanning recommendations for Enterprise computers that are running currently supported versions of Windows.
If the Windows machine is a Domain Controller, ensure that you disable antivirus software on the system during the replication.