topic SASHFADD blocked by group policy in Administration and Deployment

SASHFADD blocked by group policy

wfckc — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:34:11 GMT

has anyone see this issue, when executing SASHFADD on windows to compare HOTFIXes available, receive error "This program is blocked by group policy. For more information, contact your system administrator."

Re: SASHFADD blocked by group policy

Nigel_Pain — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:14:10 GMT

It could be Powershell that's blocked, it is in our environment. Also, we aren't able to download executables in our main environment either. We have to use a dedicated "staging" server in our extranet to download hotfixes which means:

Copying the DeploymentRegistry files to the staging server (via another dedicated server which has access through the firewall to it).

Run SASHFADD, and the download script, on the staging server.

Virus scan the downloaded hotfixes

Copy the hotfixes back to our main corporate environment using the permitted server.

Re: SASHFADD blocked by group policy

ronf_sas — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:19:18 GMT

Your shell doesn't appear to be running with elevated privileges. Try right-clicking the .exe and choose Run as Administrator.