Restricting local drives with GP

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hi all,

i wondered if give me tips or share experience using group policy restrict local drives on client workstations. i'm starting try across our mixed environment , finding has few quirks.

by way of background, have mixed estate of xp, vista , 1 or 2 win7 desktop workstations, laptops, tablet pcs , virtual desktop clients. use gp apply configuration security , standardisation purposes, we're having thorough review of it.

when introduced windows vista , migrated users across, applied gp restrict c drive. policy settings configured follows:

user configuration > administrative templates > windows components > windows explorer - "hide these specified drives in computer" , "prevent access drives computer". both set "enabled" option "restrict c drive only".

we've found works quite on vista, there few problems it. we've begun test-deploying same policy xp though we're encountering more problems.

these sort of things we've been finding:

  • users can create , name folder on desktop, cannot open it.
  • when trying 'save as' office document that's been opened outlook attachment, users access denied error before file browser appears
  • users cannot manage favourites in ie

    and there variety of other small glitches. nothing perhaps major, few things cause lot of annoyance if deployed widely.

    it seems problem caused 'prevent access' setting rather 'hide drive' one. hide drive s says prevent access interfere calls try , view path starting c:\, if path part of user profile.

    what want find out if else has found ways of alleviating problems user's profile , been able deploy setting prevent access c drive. know go 'soft' option of not using the prevent access , using hide drives , seems easy round (type 'c:' run box, example) not worth using.

    thanks reading,

    al

    • hi al, stumbled on post while searching same issues. have same problems on windows 2008 x64 servers (citrix) when using office 2010 prevent access , hide these specified drives. since post half year old wondering if have solution problem. thanks. merl


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