
About Exporting and Importing Applocker Rules If you don’t configure the above two thins, you will waste your time all day to make rules work. You will get this option as soon as you select AppLocker on the right pane. For Applocker to work this should be be started prior to creating rules else you will have to restart the machine after setting to start automatically.įor rules to work you need to configure it to run manually.

Open Services and run the service which says Application Identity.We can talk all day about AppLocker so what I am doing below is giving specific examples for understand then provide resources which gives more understanding on this subject. You can even block access to certain folders where a proprietary application is installed and the third part doesn’t want users to have access to this or you might not want users to mess here to keep the app running.The script rules are bit complex as they use powershell scripts and meant for advance usage.

These three rules will help you block applications by version number becomes sometimes an update causes an issue.

Now since Windows 7 has started rolling out in corporates, IT Admin should now about an e xcellent feature in Windows 7 which helps them prevent users to run unauthorized software running in corporate machines. Users running and installing any software they want is a big challenge or any IT Administrator because it increases the load work at time system crash and it goes against the company’s policy many a time.
