Global Policy to disable FDD & USB not working



below is the adm template i have created to disable Floppy & USB to few users
on the network.

I have created three security group Disable_FDD (where all users floppy
Drive is disabled), Disable_All (where USB & Floppy is disabled),
Disable_NONE(This group has everything enabled).

right clicking the Active directory ----> properties---->group policy---> i
created 2 policy Kill_floppy & Kill_All.

Then I
1) Right clicked the Kill_floppy policy and choose "Security"
2) Remove the check at "Authenticated Users"
3) "Add" the two new Disable_FDD, Disable_NONE Groups
4) Check "Apply" for Disable_FDD
5) Check "Deny" for Disable_NONE

Similarly i did for the Kill_All policy.

1) Right clicked the Kill_ALL policy and choose "Security"
2) Remove the check at "Authenticated Users"
3) "Add" the two new Disable_ALL, Disable_NONE Groups
4) Check "Apply" for Disable_ALL
5) Check "Deny" for Disable_NONE

In each Policy I imported the respective adm file

After this at the user end. the floppy and USB are not getting disabled,
unless i tick the allow policy option for authenticated users. In this way
all the users are applied with the policy and i could not control the group
of users.

Secondly i have to restart the window twice before the policy is applied.

please help me in this

regards

shoeb
------------------------------------------------
KILL FLOPPY
------------------------------------------------
CLASS MACHINE

CATEGORY !!categoryname

POLICY !!policyname

KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Flpydisk"

EXPLAIN !!explaintext

PART !!labeltext DROPDOWNLIST REQUIRED

VALUENAME "Start"

ITEMLIST
NAME !!Disabled VALUE NUMERIC 3 DEFAULT
NAME !!Enabled VALUE NUMERIC 4
END ITEMLIST

END PART

END POLICY

END CATEGORY


[strings]
categoryname="Restrict Drives"
policyname="Disable the Floppy Drive"
explaintext="Disables the computers Floppy Drive completely"
labeltext="Disable Floppy Drive"
Enabled="Enabled"
Disabled="Disabled"

---------------------------------------------------------------
KILL USB
---------------------------------------------------------------

CLASS MACHINE

CATEGORY !!categoryname

POLICY !!policyname

KEYNAME "SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR"

EXPLAIN !!explaintext

PART !!labeltext DROPDOWNLIST REQUIRED

VALUENAME "Start"

ITEMLIST
NAME !!Disabled VALUE NUMERIC 3 DEFAULT
NAME !!Enabled VALUE NUMERIC 4
END ITEMLIST

END PART

END POLICY

END CATEGORY


[strings]
categoryname="Restrict Drives"
policyname="Disable the USB Drive"
explaintext="Disables the computers USB Drive completely"
labeltext="Disable USB Drive"
Enabled="Enabled"
Disabled="Disabled"
.



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