Enterprise Computing
Controlling Device Installation
Removable Storage Group Policy Settings
- Additional Group Policy settings can be used to control access specifically to different types of removable storage.
- The types of devices you can control, include:
- CD and DVD: These settings control read and write access to CD and DVD drivers, including burning.
- Custom Classes: You can control read write access to any device setup class that you define.
- Floppy Drives: These settings control read and write access to floppy drives, including USB floppy drives.
- Removable Disks: These settings control read and write access to all removable disks, including USB drives.
- All Removable Storage classes: You can deny access to all types of removable storage. this etting overrides all others for removable storage.
- Tape Drives: These settings control read and write access to tape drives such as those used to backups.
- Windows Portable Devices (WPD): These settings control read and write access to smart devices such as media players. Many of these devices can also act as a removable disk.