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QUESTION POSED ON: 13 December 2003
Can you restrict the use of floppy and/or CD-ROM drives on workstations in a domain with group policy?

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Yes. Check out these two policy settings:

User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsWindows Explorer | Hide these specified drives in My Computer

And

User ConfigurationAdministrative TemplatesWindows ComponentsWindows Explorer | Prevent access to drives from My Computer

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