AppLocker design guide
This article for the IT professional introduces the design and planning steps required to deploy application control policies by using AppLocker.
This guide provides important designing and planning information for deploying application control policies by using AppLocker. Through a sequential and iterative process, you can create an AppLocker policy deployment plan for your organization that addresses your specific application control requirements by department, organizational unit, or business group.
To understand if AppLocker is the correct application control solution for your organization, see App Control for Business and AppLocker overview.
In this section
| Article | Description |
|---|---|
| Understand AppLocker policy design decisions | This article describes AppLocker design questions, possible answers, and other considerations when you plan a deployment of application control policies by using AppLocker. |
| Determine your application control objectives | This article helps you with the decisions you need to make to determine what applications to control and how to control them using AppLocker. |
| Create a list of apps deployed to each business group | This article describes the process of gathering app usage requirements from each business group in order to implement application control policies by using AppLocker. |
| Select the types of rules to create | This article lists resources you can use when selecting your application control policy rules by using AppLocker. |
| Determine the Group Policy structure and rule enforcement | This overview article describes the process to follow when you're planning to deploy AppLocker rules. |
| Plan for AppLocker policy management | This article describes the decisions you need to make to establish the processes for managing and maintaining AppLocker policies. |
After careful design and detailed planning, the next step is to deploy AppLocker policies. AppLocker Deployment Guide covers the creation and testing of policies, deploying the enforcement setting, and managing and maintaining the policies.