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any one to help me in creating a group, policy for disabling USB Drives


thanx in advance
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Hello and Welcome to Dani web

Yes you can, disable the USB ports in Device Manager

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No Cohen, he wants to set a group policy to disable all USB devices across his windows domain
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Cohen thanks for your reply but i was referring to completly block USB in the Server itself.
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Do you mean set a policy for just the server itself, or for all clients?

if a) then just lock keep it in a locked room. best way.
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All clients except administrators...
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you cant just disable usb, nor can you just disable removable storage devices, but you can hide drive letters. Maybe hiding all drives apart from network shares and c would work?
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