Windows Defender Application Guard Standalone mode

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Copper Contributor

May 06, 2017

Application Guard feature just like Credential Guard and Device Guard depends on underlying feature called Virtual Secure Mode. Which depends on Hyper-V and is Controlled by Group Policy and all these features are available on Enterprise Edition only. Virtualization extensions might or might not be present on all underlying hardware, though mostly they are present now a days.

Hence the reason for this to be available on Enterprise edition only.

Refer:

https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2016/09/27/application-guard-microsoft-edge/

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ash/2016/03/02/windows-10-device-guard-and-credential-guard-demystified/