Tag: AppLocker
How to implement the ASD Essential 8 via Group Policy
The Australian Government Department called the Australian Signals Directorate has a list of mitigation strategies that is used to help protect IT system against security risks. This list is called the “ASD Essential 8“. While this its generated by the Australian Government department it is an excellent starting point for securing any organisation or government IT Assets. The really great…
How to Troubleshoot AppLocker
AppLocker is a great new feature that was introduced in Windows 7 that allowed IT Admins to prevent the running of certain application in their corporate environment (e.g. Chrome). However there are a number of steps and pre-requisites for this feature to work that seem to catch people up quite often. So below is a simple troubleshooting flow chart that…
See me talk about Group Policy on TechNet Edge.
On my recent trip to the Microsoft MVP Summit I was able to catch up with Rick Claus and record an episode of TechNet Edge. In this video do some quick deep dives into Group Policy with Windows 8. So sit back and watch the very informative video embedded below…
How manage Published (a.k.a Metro) Apps in Windows 8 using Group Policy
Windows 8 is coming REALLY SOON and of course one of the big new things to computer with that is the new Metro Packaged Apps that run in the start screen. However these apps are very different and do not install like traditional apps to a path or have a true “executable†file to launch the program. Of course enterprises…
How Microsoft uses AppLocker to block Bit Torrent
Microsoft has just released a report (see AppLocker Deployment at Microsoft) describing the process they used to implementation of AppLocker via Group Policy. This was done to so that Microsoft would maintaining compliance with the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by preventing all their computers from running P2P software. The report shows that after they fully rolled out the…
TechEd 2010 AU – Desktop Security with Windows 7 Applocker, Bitlocker, Forefront End Point Protection
Here is another one of my TechEd 2010 Australia sessions… Description: Managing Desktop Security is more than just installing scanning software, it’s about managing the applications, the data and ensuring the environment is monitored. In this session we look at AppLocker for to help you decide which ones to allow and which ones to squelch. Then at securing data both…
TechEd 2010 NZ – Windows 7 – AppLocker / BitLocker
Source http://www.msteched.com/2010/NewZealand/CLI314
Active Directory and Group Policy… Would you like to know more?
Ned Pyle from the Active Directory Service team has just done a super post to the Ask the Directory Services Team called Post-Graduate AD Studies. This is a collection of links to pretty much every AD/Group Policy related TechNet article known to man. Definitely a post that you will want to bookmark to use as a reference whenever you have…
