Installation

Install it from the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9png1jddtgp8

What's New

• During local file scans which happen in various pages in the AppControl Manager, the scan progress is now displayed on the app's taskbar icon in real time.

• Added a new message bar to the Create Policy From Event Logs to show real time messages about the currently running processes.

• Added a new button called Only Use Selected Items to the Create Policy From Event Logs and Create Policy From MDE Advanced Hunting pages. The following is the description of the button:

  • Only include the selected items in the supplemental policy. You can select one or more items in the ListView and if this option is enabled, only those will be included in the supplemental policy. If this is disabled, everything will be included in the supplemental policy. If you use this option and nothing is selected in the ListView, everything will be included in the supplemental policy.

• Added a Progress Ring to the Policy Editor page to show the progress when a policy is being loaded.

• Added additional helpful insights to many UI elements for accessibility purposes so tools such as screen readers will be able to use them to generate proper feedback for people that need them.

• Added more messages to the message bar in the Create Policy From MDE Advanced Hunting page. They offer more information about the current operation and its progress.

• Added a button called Open In The Policy Editor to the following pages:

  • Create AppControl Policy

  • Allow New Apps

  • Create Policy From Event Logs

  • Create Policy From MDE Advanced Hunting

This feature enables users to seamlessly open newly created policies directly in the Policy Editor, offering a detailed overview of the policy, its associated rules, and the ability to refine and customize it further. By streamlining this workflow, the feature significantly reduces friction and enhances the overall user experience.

The button only appears at the end of the operation on the message bars of each section. More pages will have this feature in the update.

• Added a checkbox to the elevation prompt when accessing admin-required pages from unelevated session to enable auto elevation at startup.

• Added a new option to the settings page that can also control the startup elevation behavior. When this option is enabled, AppControl Manager will prompt for elevation by default at startup just like before version 1.9.8.0. The difference now is that this behavior can be controlled by the user and is no longer static.

• Bumped the app version to 1.9.9.0.

• Improved the accuracy of the Merge and Simulation operations.

• Lots of general code improvements such as type internalization and refactoring.

PRs

• AppControl-Manager-DownloadLink-Version-Update-Version-1.9.8.0 by @github-actions in #660
• Bump google/osv-scanner-action from 1.9.2 to 2.0.0 by @dependabot in #661
• Added Taskbar progress to AppControl Manager by @HotCakeX in #663
• New Admin prompt checkbox, simulation and merge improvements, code refactoring in the AppControl Manager by @HotCakeX in #665
• Added new helpful UI elements to the AppControl Manager by @HotCakeX in #667

How to verify the MSIXBundle's authenticity:

gh attestation verify "Path To MSIXBundle" --repo HotCakeX/Harden-Windows-Security --format json

You can install the GitHub CLI from Winget:

winget install --id GitHub.cli