Smart App Control

[Alexander Muylaert _X_]

Sourcetree is 100% blocked by Windows Smart App Control.  There is no solution for this.  Either we're required to disable SAC (against company policy) or Sourcetree should be signed properly.

The latter sounds like to only viable solution.

Funny enough I can simply run the installer again, it will not install anything, BUT it will launch sourcetree without being blocked.

[Tomislav Tobijas · Accepted solution]

Interesting @Alexander Muylaert _X_ 

I haven't seen this specific case yet and I haven't found anything reported in JAC about this.

I am guessing this is happening on v3.4.28? Or are you using some older version?
v3.4.28 did fix Windows EXE Signing cert, but not sure if that would somehow affect this. 

Cheers,
Tobi

[Alexander Muylaert _X_]

Hi Tomislav

Yes, on 3.4.28 and, what I find also weird, I didn't have this earlier this week.  It started today.  It is a brandnew laptop since Monday, so I coincidently paid attention to such behaviors.

kind regards

Alexander

[Alexander Muylaert _X_]

[Tomislav Tobijas]

So, I've just checked all my devices and I have SAC status set to "Off"
And I cannot change this without reinstalling Windows... Lovely, hah

What best course of action here could be is to create a ticket in JAC (log in with your account and create a new bug/suggestion. This should land in the dev backlogs and they can review it. 👀

Not sure how the majority of people and companies have this set - potentially, if we're talking about a small amount, this part is missing testing and therefore it's causing issues. 

I don't have knowledge about how this is actually checked on Microsoft's validation endpoints and if it can, potentially, be blocked by proxy, firewalls, and such. 🤔

Again, raising a ticket on JAC might be the best bet here.

[Alexander Muylaert _X_]

Yes, that is indeed the reason why I'm raising the issue.  It is not a temporary bump, disabling SAC is pretty permanent.

We have this with a new roll out of laptops among staff.  I guess it will happen more and more.

thanks, I will make a ticket

[Alexander Muylaert _X_]

Follow up can be found at https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-14668

[Tomislav Tobijas]

Great. Thanks for flagging this @Alexander Muylaert _X_ !

Dropped my vote on the ticket ➕

[Alexander Muylaert _X_]

Weirdly enough, today it is resolved

• You might have a point about the validation endpoints.  Today I am on a different network.
• Or Microsoft fixed it, I didn't change anything since Friday