01Learning first, enforcement second
The agent spends its opening period cataloguing what your estate genuinely executes. The policy that results is built from your own software inventory rather than a vendor template, which is why enforcement does not begin by blocking the line-of-business application nobody remembered to mention.
02Permitted is not the same as unlimited
Once something is approved, ringfencing still governs its reach: the files it may open, the other programs it is allowed to launch, and whether it gets to talk outbound at all. Where a document viewer has no legitimate reason to walk a network share, it is unable to, and that holds even after somebody has been talked into opening the attachment.
03Elevation without local administrator
People who need to install software can request elevation for a specific action instead of holding administrative rights permanently. Requests arrive at a staffed desk during business hours rather than sitting in a queue that nobody has been made responsible for.