block USB drive via local GPO

this tutorial shows how to block USB drives by local group policy. This GPO setting was first available on Windows Vista. I perform this on Windows 7. Group Policy objects are only available to the professional and ultimate versions of Windows 7. These flash drives, also called thumb drives, pose a security threat to many businesses. They make it easy to remove sensitive data from the workplace.

Providing training Videos since last Tuesday
http://www.technoblogical.com
Thanks for Watching!

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• technoblogical
• software tutorial
• business
• Computer Software
• Tutorial
• Technology
• Windows
• Desktop
• computer
• software
• windows 7
• vista
• microsoft
• Windows Vista
• Software Tutorial

[xXKYKYXx99]

Good Video, Question

when i plug the USB dives it will read it but it will not write, if a want to Disable it will be Normal again ?

and I have to reboot in order to take effect ?

[technoblogical]

@xXKYKYXx99 Well, that's the idea, but the reboot is not required. The command gpupdate is supposed to update the policy, but I like to reboot when I update someone's policy "just to make sure." This is NOT an efficient way to do this if you are going to be enabling/disabling all the time. This is the solution you'd use if you never want USB to be used on that computer. If you want to be selective that's where Active Directory and a Windows Domain comes into play.

[xXKYKYXx99]

@technoblogical Thanks (: Keep up the good work.