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Event ID 1121: Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard has blocked an operation that is not allowed by your IT administrator

Windows Event ID Lookup: What Windows event IDs mean: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 7045, 1102 and 3,000 more, with Windows' own message text, the fields and what to check.

Look up a Windows event ID from Event Viewer, a SIEM alert or a log export: what it means, the fields it records, and what to check. Many IDs are used by more than one source (event 41 is both a Kernel-Power crash and a boot error), so every definition is shown, the one people usually mean first. The message text is Windows' own, read from the event providers of Windows 10.0.26200.0, 2026-10-28; the notes are ours, based on Microsoft's security auditing reference.

Try: 4625, 4624, 4740, 6008, 41, 1074, 7045, 1102, 4104, 1149

Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard has blocked an operation that is not allowed by your IT administrator.

Event 1121
Windows Defender
Windows Defender/Operational log
Warning
Message and fields (as Event Viewer shows them)
Microsoft Defender Exploit Guard has blocked an operation that is not allowed by your IT administrator.
 For more information please contact your IT administrator.
 	ID: …
 	Detection time: …
 	User: …
 	Path: …
 	Process Name: …
 	Target Commandline: …
 	Parent Commandline: …
 	Involved File: …
 	Inheritance Flags: …
 	Security intelligence Version: …
 	Engine Version: …
 	Product Version: …