Once enabled and running, the service reads application rules from Group Policy and evaluates every application that attempts to execute on the computer. In other words, this service basically makes AppLocker work. This service is designed to read application rules from Group Policy, and then identify applications accordingly. To begin with, inventorying applications requires configuring client computers to run the new Application Identity Service, something that ships with Windows 7 but isn't enabled by default. To be sure, AppLocker is still a complex piece of business, and it's far from perfect.
You can, of course, edit that to remove the already-installed applications that you don't want to permit, and you can maintain the list going forward. On paper, AppLocker scans your environment to find the installed apps and automatically constructs the whitelist for you. It is a new feature of Windows 7 billed as the solution to SRP's tedious application whitelist maintenance. Many, many organizations simply didn't have the time or resources, and so they gave SRP a miss. Oh, organizations definitely used it, and it works as advertised, but the process of assembling and maintaining that list of approved applications was incredibly complicated and time-consuming. With SRPs, you'd make a big list of all the applications you wanted to permit, and nothing else could execute.
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In Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft introduced a technology called Software Restriction Policies (SRP), a part of Group Policy that was intended to keep unwanted applications from running. Getting it to not run applications kind of goes against the grain. Windows' primary function, after all, is to run applications, and it does a pretty good job at it. Those can not only cause support issues, but outright financial damage if you're caught. There's also that whole class of 'quasi-business' applications that have an arguable business benefit ' but which your company hasn't paid for, isn't licensed to use, and doesn't want. And those are just the applications your users know they're not supposed to be running.
These things kill productivity, hammer the network, and half the time seem packed with junkware, spyware, and who knows what else. Try as you might, you'll never stop your users from getting to all of them. For one, there are those our users aren't supposed to be running: Streaming video.
We have a support contract with Microsoft and they have determined they need to work with Adobe on this issue as they are unsure of what the Adobe Reader DC APIs are actually doing, however Adobe has specified they do not provide any support for Adobe Reader and to post this issue on the forums.None of us love all applications equally.
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I am currently downloading Windows 10 to attempt a recreation on that OS. This is a completely repeatable issue that has come up in our environment and I am able to re-create this issue in my home lab with no other applications installed, thus reinstalling has no effect.
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Without iProtectedView enabled the form-fillable PDF opens with no problems, with iProtectedView enabled and AppLocker completely unconfigured the form-fillable PDF opens with no problems. IProtectedView is set to 2 and AppLocker is in audit only mode for DLLs. Adobe Reader DC is getting the following error when opening form-fillable PDFs from the web on a windows 7 system:įailed to load an application resource (internal error).