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Merged PR 15119: new issue about files in windir

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audience: ITPro
ms.collection: M365-security-compliance
ms.topic: conceptual
ms.date: 03/06/2019
ms.date: 04/05/2019
ms.localizationpriority: medium
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<td>If all apps need to be managed, enroll the device for MDM.
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<td>By design, files in the Windows directory (%windir% or C:/Windows) cannot be encrypted because they need to be accessed by any user. If a file in the Windows directory gets encypted by one user, other users can't access it.
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<td>Any attempt to encrypt a file in the Windows directory will return a file access denied error. But if you copy or drag and drop an encrypted file to the Windows directory, it will retain encryption to honor the intent of the owner.
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<td>If you need to save an encrypted file in the Windows directory, create and encrypt the file in a different directory and copy it.
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