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USB Flash Disk Eric cantona 04-20-2006
|--> Re: USB Flash Disk Miha Pihler [MV...04-20-2006
Posted by Eric cantona on April 20, 2006, 11:53 am
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 Hi,

Just drop by to enquire about a particular piece of information.

Is there any means to restrict the use of USB flash disk on a domain using
group policy?
I mean for instance you can restrict use of Floppy Drive, CD/DVD Drive and
so on.
I've been able to find an adm template on microsoft website that actually
prevents the USB driver to load.
The problem is: new PC's are delivered with USB Mouse and Keyboard!!

Thanks for answering my query.




Posted by Miha Pihler [MVP] on April 20, 2006, 12:34 pm
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 Hi Eric,

This is possible. If you have Windows XP SP2 on your computers you can make
all USB drives read-only.

Here is how
Changes to Functionality in Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/maintain/sp2otech.mspx

under: "Controlling block storage devices on USB buses"

Still, you have to know that these restrictions can be bypassed by
determined users. There are also other ways for users to steal information
from the company -- specially if the users have access to the internet from
their computers.

--
Mike
Microsoft MVP - Windows Security

> Hi,
>
> Just drop by to enquire about a particular piece of information.
>
> Is there any means to restrict the use of USB flash disk on a domain using
> group policy?
> I mean for instance you can restrict use of Floppy Drive, CD/DVD Drive and
> so on.
> I've been able to find an adm template on microsoft website that actually
> prevents the USB driver to load.
> The problem is: new PC's are delivered with USB Mouse and Keyboard!!
>
> Thanks for answering my query.
>
>
>



Posted by Smith on April 21, 2006, 7:12 pm
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Why not just disable all of the removable storage.
This will cover usb drives, flash drives , floppy, etc... cdrw dvdrw...


> Hi,
>
> Just drop by to enquire about a particular piece of information.
>
> Is there any means to restrict the use of USB flash disk on a domain using
> group policy?
> I mean for instance you can restrict use of Floppy Drive, CD/DVD Drive and
> so on.
> I've been able to find an adm template on microsoft website that actually
> prevents the USB driver to load.
> The problem is: new PC's are delivered with USB Mouse and Keyboard!!
>
> Thanks for answering my query.
>
>
>



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