Friday 22 June 2012

Disable & Enable Removable devices with Gpedit



In this article i am going to show you how to disable Removable 

devices. Because in the corporate sectors , schools & colleges 

System administrators face the problem of data security there is 

chance of data copying through removable devices like USB ,Tape 

drives , Floppy Drives, WPD devices, CD/DVD drives etc but now 

don't worry after reading this article you will be able to set rights to 

access the all removable devices. Ok lets start...
First login with administrative account

now go to run & type gpedit.msc > press enter

now navigate to 

User configuration>Administrative Templates>System>Removable Storage Access.

















In the right side you will see all type of removable devices

now double click your selected device 




















example :Removable Device Deny Write access 

& for applying policy Click on Enabled & apply , & if you want to
rollback your setting click on Not Configured.

To apply this setting  you will need restart or log off or 

simply Go to run & type Gpupdate >Enter

That's it Now you are at Secure side...

B Work Smarter...

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