topic Re: CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion? in Endpoint Security

CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion?

NateGoSan — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 16:17:17 GMT

What does the CSIDL_BASEDIR path exclusion do? I keep looking online for documentation and can't seem to find anything that gives a clear answer.

Re: CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion?

Matthew Franks — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:01:10 GMT

CSIDL_BASEDIR is the path of the Secure Endpoint application, so typically C:\Program Files\Cisco\AMP.

Thanks,

Matt

Re: CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion?

Ken Stieers — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:07:27 GMT

Hey Matt,
That's a doc bug... because its not ANYWHERE...
And google just comes up with the same question posted in other forums.
Ken

Re: CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion?

NateGoSan — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:21:33 GMT

Perfect. Thanks, Matt!

Re: CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion?

Matthew Franks — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:21:46 GMT

Ken,

I've filed an enhancement request with our documentation team to have this properly documented. Thanks for the feedback.

-Matt

Re: CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion?

Ken Stieers — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 19:08:58 GMT

Hey @Matthew Franks

Are you guys seeing this? All of my exclusions seem to throw this error now.

I'm setting it to CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES\Cisco\AMP

Ken

Re: CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion?

Matthew Franks — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:06:10 GMT

@Ken Stieers CSIDL_PROGRAM_FILES/Cisco/AMP seems to work just fine in my environment. CSIDL_BASEDIR as in your photo looks like it needs a / at the end to be taken. You can see the same with FOLDERID.

Thanks,

Matt

Re: CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion?

Ken Stieers — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:47:58 GMT

Hey Matthew.
Both of them work with a following slash...
To be clear, I haven't touched these is a LONG time... so it looks like there was a change made somewhere maybe new validation rules in the gui?
Ken

Re: CSIDL_BASEDIR Path Exclusion?

Matthew Franks — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:30:13 GMT

Looks like we made a change early last month for this. The previously applied exclusions should work with no changes but any new changes would require the update.

-Matt