Managing Access to External Devices
Procedure
- Navigate to .
- Select Enable Device Control.
- Choose to allow or block the AutoRun function (autorun.inf) on USB storage devices.
- Configure settings for storage devices.
- Select a permission for each storage device. For details about permissions, see Permissions for Storage Devices.
- If the permission for USB storage devices is Block, configure a list of approved devices. Users can access these devices and you can control the level of access using permissions. See Configuring an Approved List of USB Devices.
- For each non-storage device, select Allow or Block.
- Click Create a Task to deploy the settings.
- Click OK. At the prompt, type your private key password and click OK.
- Below Actions, click the hyperlink to open the Take Action window.
- In the Target tab, click Specific computers selected in the list below and then choose the computers you want to deploy this Action to.
- When finished identifying the computers you want to include in the exception, click OK. At the prompt, type your private key password and click OK.
- The Action | Summary window that opens, monitor the "Status" of the Action to confirm that it is "Running" and then "Completed".