Software restriction policies windows 7 professional

More than likely is the reason. I'm testing the policies locally right now to see if they are setup correctly. Only raise the functional level once you no longer have any R2 DC's. IF you have all R2, raise them to R2. Oddly enough, while testing these GPOs, I think they were actually working.

The machines appear to have required a reboot to take effect. Good to hear it's working. I think most of it revolves around GP preferences. I'll keep that in mind. Good to know. Thanks for all your suggestions. Really helps to have suggestions to go off of. Not sure what we are moving to, probably so I'd presume we will look into raising the functional level at that time. It doesn't really force anything.

What force really does is evaluate all GPOs and apply them where the regular gpupdate will only eval new or modified GPOs. Some of my users run as local admins, mainly mobile users, and they are able to elevate EXEs to work in the app data directory I am eventually going to use SRP or AppLocker to elevate them as necessary, but that's not applicable ATM.

I discovered this issue as Spotify evidently installs itself in the app data directory and one user reported it not working after I deployed the SRP. He is a mobile user and was supposed to be a local admin and after adding him to that it was prompting for a UAC elevation to run Spotify. Forums Software Security. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.

Previous Next. Feb 16, 8 0 I am currently using an earlier version of these instructions successfully in Windows XP before that in Win2K for years, I think. But things seem different in Win7: You can probably skip over this first paragraph, which is here just for completeness.

At least it shows that the new SRP is doing something: 1 After following the instructions, restarting is this necessary for the change to take effect? OK, fine except that I'm an Administrator. A new restart and login revealed no immediate errors. So far so good. Note that the original Notepad. Can you have only one at a time? Do I delete only the one policy that I just installed? Any guidance on what's going wrong and how to fix it would be greatly appreciated!

Oct 31, 30, 0 0. The simplest approach here is to 1. Blocking DLLs along with the other filetypes is desirable from a security standpoint, so try to stick with that. If the problematic ThinkPad software is running from an unauthorized location, you have some options: 1. If it's just bloatware, uninstall it.

If it is necessary, where is it installed to? Otherwise you've created a loophole. Alternately, you could create a Hash Rule that allows those unique files to run, determined by their hash digital thumbprint, basically. Gateway modified the permissions so that even a Standard User had Admin-level powers on the entire Windows directory which nullifies the Catch situation That came to light when I ran the audit script mentioned on my SRP page.

Last edited: Feb 16, I don't know exactly why your Notepad. Maybe using a non-Windows. EXE file would be a better test It will work as intended with UAC at either the default or maximum settings, including for the Admin account unless the local security policy has been messed up by Lenovo. If SRP does take action, it'll be recorded in the Windows logs. Yellow warning triangles with Software Restriction Policy in the title would be what you're looking for.

If SRP doesn't seem to be having any effect and you're sure you did all the steps, then in Group Policy Editor, right-click the root of the Local Group Policy tree itself, choose Properties, and make sure neither of the checkboxes is checked that would disable parts of the policy. For instance, we select a program: wmplayer. For more information contact your system administrator. If you were unable to implement software restriction policies on Windows 7 or other Microsoft products call us for help.

We provide excellent classroom based training in Chicago area. Give us a call or fill out our contact form for a quote. Slide 1.