Hi ansible-devel,
Quick question for anyone running Ansible on Windows: has anyone used Ansible to configure Applocker? It’s a security/hardening/audit tool for Windows, replacing Software Restriction Policies.
The natural way to deploy/manage it would be with group policy, but I’m running it on servers outside a domain, so I wanted an Ansible solution instead. Can’t see any playbooks or modules out there so far about it, but there’s a fairly neat set of powershell cmdlets to do it. I was planning on writing a module to do it, but I thought I’d ask stick my head up and check that this isn’t a solved problem already 
Thanks,
Nikki
pretty sure that’s not solved yet.
Based on this: https://p0w3rsh3ll.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/configure-applocker-with-desired-state-configuration/ you could take that DSC thing and run it thru my DSC-To-Ansible resource converter (https://github.com/trondhindenes/AnsibleDscModuleGenerator) but it would of course only be compatible with nodes running Powershell V5.
Oh, nice! Thanks for the link, that’s a really cool concept.
After a bit of hunting around, I’d been thinking the same way as the blogger you linked to - that writing (or templating) an XML file and importing that is much neater than using their Powershell for making rules. So I suspect that a lot of the work involved in making AppLocker hands-off way is really in figuring out all the UUIDs and SIDs and so on you need for a valid XML AppLocker ruleset.
Really, the main piece I’m missing is a way to import an applocker policy from a local file - there’s already Ansible solutions for ‘grab this file from remotely’ or ‘template this onto the target host with these parameters’, and for ‘manage the state of this service’ (for AppIDSvc). I’ll let the internet know how it goes.
Cheers,
Nikki