Re: Disable Laptop Ports

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From: Simon Johnson (Ckwop_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: 27 May 2004 00:51:36 -0700

"Jeff M" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<12d4901c44355$cdb419b0$a301280a@phx.gbl>...
> Can I disable Laptop Ports using group policy? USB and CD
> Drives?

If your willing to tattoo the registry you can create a custom ADM
that sets the registry key given here:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

AllocateDASD (DWORD)

0 - Administrators only
1 - Administrators and Power Users
2 - Administrators and Interactive users

It doesn't appear as if there is a group policy to do this.

Cheers,

Simon.

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