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|Configure Microsoft Defender Application Guard clipboard settings|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise|Determines whether Application Guard can use the clipboard functionality.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Turns on the clipboard functionality and lets you choose whether to additionally:<br/>- Disable the clipboard functionality completely when Virtualization Security is enabled.<br/>- Enable copying of certain content from Application Guard into Microsoft Edge.<br/>- Enable copying of certain content from Microsoft Edge into Application Guard. **Important:** Allowing copied content to go from Microsoft Edge into Application Guard can cause potential security risks and isn't recommended.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Completely turns off the clipboard functionality for Application Guard.|
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|Configure Microsoft Defender Application Guard print settings|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise|Determines whether Application Guard can use the print functionality.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Turns on the print functionality and lets you choose whether to additionally:<br/>- Enable Application Guard to print into the XPS format.<br/>- Enable Application Guard to print into the PDF format.<br/>- Enable Application Guard to print to locally attached printers.<br/>- Enable Application Guard to print from previously connected network printers. Employees can't search for other printers.<br/><br/>**Disabled or not configured.** Completely turns Off the print functionality for Application Guard.|
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|Allow Persistence|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise|Determines whether data persists across different sessions in Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Application Guard saves user-downloaded files and other items (such as, cookies, Favorites, and so on) for use in future Application Guard sessions.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** All user data within Application Guard is reset between sessions.<p>**NOTE**: If you later decide to stop supporting data persistence for your employees, you can use our Windows-provided utility to reset the container and to discard any personal data.<p>**To reset the container:**<br/>1. Open a command-line program and navigate to `Windows/System32`.<br/>2. Type `wdagtool.exe cleanup`. The container environment is reset, retaining only the employee-generated data.<br/>3. Type `wdagtool.exe cleanup RESET_PERSISTENCE_LAYER`. The container environment is reset, including discarding all employee-generated data.|
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|Turn on Microsoft Defender Application Guard in Managed Mode|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise|Determines whether to turn on Application Guard for Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Office.|**Enabled.** Turns on Application Guard for Microsoft Edge and/or Microsoft Office, honoring the network isolation settings, rendering untrusted content in the Application Guard container. Application Guard won't actually be turned on unless the required prerequisites and network isolation settings are already set on the device. Available options:<br/>- Enable Microsoft Defender Application Guard only for Microsoft Edge<br/>- Enable Microsoft Defender Application Guard only for Microsoft Office<br/>- Enable Microsoft Defender Application Guard for both Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Office<br/><br/>**Disabled.** Turns off Application Guard, allowing all apps to run in Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Office. <br/><br/>**Note:** For Windows 10, if you have KB5014666 installed, and for Windows 11, if you have KB5014668 installed, you are no longer required to configure network isolation policy to enable Application Guard for Edge.|
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|Allow files to download to host operating system|Windows 10 Enterprise or Pro, 1803 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise or Pro|Determines whether to save downloaded files to the host operating system from the Microsoft Defender Application Guard container.|**Enabled.** Allows users to save downloaded files from the Microsoft Defender Application Guard container to the host operating system. This action creates a share between the host and container that also allows for uploads from the host to the Application Guard container.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Users aren't able to save downloaded files from Application Guard to the host operating system.|
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|Allow hardware-accelerated rendering for Microsoft Defender Application Guard|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1803 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise|Determines whether Microsoft Defender Application Guard renders graphics using hardware or software acceleration.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Microsoft Defender Application Guard uses Hyper-V to access supported, high-security rendering graphics hardware (GPUs). These GPUs improve rendering performance and battery life while using Microsoft Defender Application Guard, particularly for video playback and other graphics-intensive use cases. If this setting is enabled without connecting any high-security rendering graphics hardware, Microsoft Defender Application Guard will automatically revert to software-based (CPU) rendering. **Important:** Enabling this setting with potentially compromised graphics devices or drivers might pose a risk to the host device.<br><br>**Disabled or not configured.** Microsoft Defender Application Guard uses software-based (CPU) rendering and won't load any third-party graphics drivers or interact with any connected graphics hardware.|
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|Allow camera and microphone access in Microsoft Defender Application Guard|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise|Determines whether to allow camera and microphone access inside Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Applications inside Microsoft Defender Application Guard are able to access the camera and microphone on the user's device. **Important:** Enabling this policy with a potentially compromised container could bypass camera and microphone permissions and access the camera and microphone without the user's knowledge.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Applications inside Microsoft Defender Application Guard are unable to access the camera and microphone on the user's device.|
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|Allow Microsoft Defender Application Guard to use Root Certificate Authorities from a user's device|Windows 10 Enterprise or Pro, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise or Pro|Determines whether Root Certificates are shared with Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|**Enabled.** Certificates matching the specified thumbprint are transferred into the container. Use a comma to separate multiple certificates.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Certificates aren't shared with Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|
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|Allow auditing events in Microsoft Defender Application Guard|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise|This policy setting allows you to decide whether auditing events can be collected from Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Application Guard inherits auditing policies from your device and logs system events from the Application Guard container to your host.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Event logs aren't collected from your Application Guard container.|
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|Configure Microsoft Defender Application Guard clipboard settings|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 10 Education, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise and Education|Determines whether Application Guard can use the clipboard functionality.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Turns on the clipboard functionality and lets you choose whether to additionally:<br/>- Disable the clipboard functionality completely when Virtualization Security is enabled.<br/>- Enable copying of certain content from Application Guard into Microsoft Edge.<br/>- Enable copying of certain content from Microsoft Edge into Application Guard. **Important:** Allowing copied content to go from Microsoft Edge into Application Guard can cause potential security risks and isn't recommended.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Completely turns off the clipboard functionality for Application Guard.|
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|Configure Microsoft Defender Application Guard print settings|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 10 Education, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise and Education|Determines whether Application Guard can use the print functionality.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Turns on the print functionality and lets you choose whether to additionally:<br/>- Enable Application Guard to print into the XPS format.<br/>- Enable Application Guard to print into the PDF format.<br/>- Enable Application Guard to print to locally attached printers.<br/>- Enable Application Guard to print from previously connected network printers. Employees can't search for other printers.<br/><br/>**Disabled or not configured.** Completely turns Off the print functionality for Application Guard.|
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|Allow Persistence|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 10 Education, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise and Education|Determines whether data persists across different sessions in Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Application Guard saves user-downloaded files and other items (such as, cookies, Favorites, and so on) for use in future Application Guard sessions.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** All user data within Application Guard is reset between sessions.<p>**NOTE**: If you later decide to stop supporting data persistence for your employees, you can use our Windows-provided utility to reset the container and to discard any personal data.<p>**To reset the container:**<br/>1. Open a command-line program and navigate to `Windows/System32`.<br/>2. Type `wdagtool.exe cleanup`. The container environment is reset, retaining only the employee-generated data.<br/>3. Type `wdagtool.exe cleanup RESET_PERSISTENCE_LAYER`. The container environment is reset, including discarding all employee-generated data.|
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|Turn on Microsoft Defender Application Guard in Managed Mode|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 10 Education, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise and Education|Determines whether to turn on Application Guard for Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Office.|**Enabled.** Turns on Application Guard for Microsoft Edge and/or Microsoft Office, honoring the network isolation settings, rendering untrusted content in the Application Guard container. Application Guard won't actually be turned on unless the required prerequisites and network isolation settings are already set on the device. Available options:<br/>- Enable Microsoft Defender Application Guard only for Microsoft Edge<br/>- Enable Microsoft Defender Application Guard only for Microsoft Office<br/>- Enable Microsoft Defender Application Guard for both Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Office<br/><br/>**Disabled.** Turns off Application Guard, allowing all apps to run in Microsoft Edge and Microsoft Office. <br/><br/>**Note:** For Windows 10, if you have KB5014666 installed, and for Windows 11, if you have KB5014668 installed, you are no longer required to configure network isolation policy to enable Application Guard for Edge.|
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|Allow files to download to host operating system|Windows 10 Enterprise or Pro, 1803 or higher<p>Windows 10 Education, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise or Pro or Education|Determines whether to save downloaded files to the host operating system from the Microsoft Defender Application Guard container.|**Enabled.** Allows users to save downloaded files from the Microsoft Defender Application Guard container to the host operating system. This action creates a share between the host and container that also allows for uploads from the host to the Application Guard container.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Users aren't able to save downloaded files from Application Guard to the host operating system.|
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|Allow hardware-accelerated rendering for Microsoft Defender Application Guard|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 10 Education, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise and Education|Determines whether Microsoft Defender Application Guard renders graphics using hardware or software acceleration.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Microsoft Defender Application Guard uses Hyper-V to access supported, high-security rendering graphics hardware (GPUs). These GPUs improve rendering performance and battery life while using Microsoft Defender Application Guard, particularly for video playback and other graphics-intensive use cases. If this setting is enabled without connecting any high-security rendering graphics hardware, Microsoft Defender Application Guard will automatically revert to software-based (CPU) rendering. **Important:** Enabling this setting with potentially compromised graphics devices or drivers might pose a risk to the host device.<br><br>**Disabled or not configured.** Microsoft Defender Application Guard uses software-based (CPU) rendering and won't load any third-party graphics drivers or interact with any connected graphics hardware.|
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|Allow camera and microphone access in Microsoft Defender Application Guard|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 10 Education, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise and Education|Determines whether to allow camera and microphone access inside Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Applications inside Microsoft Defender Application Guard are able to access the camera and microphone on the user's device. **Important:** Enabling this policy with a potentially compromised container could bypass camera and microphone permissions and access the camera and microphone without the user's knowledge.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Applications inside Microsoft Defender Application Guard are unable to access the camera and microphone on the user's device.|
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|Allow Microsoft Defender Application Guard to use Root Certificate Authorities from a user's device|Windows 10 Enterprise or Pro, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 10 Education, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise or Pro|Determines whether Root Certificates are shared with Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|**Enabled.** Certificates matching the specified thumbprint are transferred into the container. Use a comma to separate multiple certificates.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Certificates aren't shared with Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|
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|Allow auditing events in Microsoft Defender Application Guard|Windows 10 Enterprise, 1709 or higher<p>Windows 10 Education, 1809 or higher<p>Windows 11 Enterprise and Education|This policy setting allows you to decide whether auditing events can be collected from Microsoft Defender Application Guard.|**Enabled.** This is effective only in managed mode. Application Guard inherits auditing policies from your device and logs system events from the Application Guard container to your host.<p>**Disabled or not configured.** Event logs aren't collected from your Application Guard container.|
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## Application Guard support dialog settings
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These settings are located at `Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows Security\Enterprise Customization`. If an error is encountered, you're presented with a dialog box. By default, this dialog box only contains the error information and a button for you to report it to Microsoft via the feedback hub. However, it's possible to provide additional information in the dialog box.
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Jordan Geurten
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