![]() Enter SRP’s, where administrators could create rules and policies to block the installation of some of the more … popular … pieces of unauthorized software. Of course, almost inevitably, the software would cause other issues – leading to more helpdesk calls, some fairly angry end-users and of course, some really angry IT folks. In most of these cases, there was no real business need for these apps – let’s face it, is having a “cool” screensaver really a justifiable business application? Probably not in the vast majority of cases. We’ve all been in environments where end-users have brought in software from home or downloaded some sort of shareware or freeware and installed it on their machine. Believe me when I tell you that we all have our fair share of horror stories. Most of us on the Performance team were IT Administrators at one time or another prior to joining Microsoft. Seasoned admins have probably made use of SRP’s in the past, but some of you may be wondering why this is even an issue. msp files) and Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL’s). With AppLocker, an administrator has the ability to control how users run all types of applications – scripts, excecutables, Windows Installer files (.msi and. AppLocker replaces the Software Restriction Policies (SRP’s) that many of you are probably familiar with. It’s Day Nineteen of our Launch Series, which means that there are only three more days until Windows 7 appears on store shelves! Today, we’re going to provide a really quick overview of AppLocker, which is a new feature in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. First published on TECHNET on Oct 19, 2009
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