restrict USB and CD/DVD-ROM devices

External Since: Jun 19, 2004 Posts: 1

I'm looking a way to restrict USB and CD/DVD-ROM devices in my environment.
We are using Windows XP workstations and Windows 2000/2003 domain
controllers. I found an article for doing this through group policy for Vista
and Server
2008(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/9fe5bf05-a4a9-44e2-a0c3-b4b4eaaa37f3.mspx),
but not for what my company is running. Can anyone point me in the right
direction?

External Since: Jun 07, 2007 Posts: 176

archie <archie.RemoveThis@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I'm looking a way to restrict USB and CD/DVD-ROM devices in my
> environment. We are using Windows XP workstations and Windows
> 2000/2003 domain controllers. I found an article for doing this
> through group policy for Vista and Server
> 2008(http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsvista/library/9fe5bf05-a4a9-44e2-a0c3-b4b4eaaa37f3.mspx),
> but not for what my company is running. Can anyone point me in the
> right direction?

See
HOWTO: Use Group Policy to disable USB, CD-ROM, Floppy Disk and LS-120
drivers
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555324

Note that questions such as this are best posted in
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy.