windows-itpro-docs/windows/security/application-security/application-control/windows-defender-application-control/applocker/determine-group-policy-structure-and-rule-enforcement.md

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Determine the Group Policy structure and rule enforcement	This overview topic describes the process to follow when you're planning to deploy AppLocker rules.	medium	conceptual	09/21/2017

Determine the Group Policy structure and rule enforcement

Note

Some capabilities of Windows Defender Application Control are only available on specific Windows versions. Learn more about the Windows Defender Application Control feature availability.

This overview topic describes the process to follow when you're planning to deploy AppLocker rules.

In this section

Topic	Description
Understand AppLocker enforcement settings	This topic describes the AppLocker enforcement settings for rule collections.
Understand AppLocker rules and enforcement setting inheritance in Group Policy	This topic for the IT professional describes how application control policies configured in AppLocker are applied through Group Policy.
Document the Group Policy structure and AppLocker rule enforcement	This planning topic describes what you need to investigate, determine, and record in your application control policies plan when you use AppLocker.

When you're determining how many Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to create when you apply an AppLocker policy in your organization, you should consider the following points:

• Whether you're creating new GPOs or using existing GPOs
• Whether you're implementing Software Restriction Policies (SRP) policies and AppLocker policies in the same GPO
• GPO naming conventions
• GPO size limits

Note: There is no default limit on the number of AppLocker rules that you can create. However, in Windows Server 2008 R2, GPOs have a 2 MB size limit for performance. In subsequent versions, that limit is raised to 100 MB.