How to disable all floppy drives on the network

From: Sakaba (Sakaba_at_alexandria.cc)
Date: 12/10/03

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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:45:38 +0900

    Hi everyone,

    I got a AD network running mostly Win2k and WinXP. All our client PCs
    have floppy drives but I've been asked by management to remove them to
    prevent users from putting data on floppies which short of encrypting
    the files lack security. This is obviously very time consuming so I'm
    looking for a way to simply disable them.

    - The group policy setting that limits access to the locally logged in
    user is no good because the drive still shows up to many applications
    that were installed under local admin.

    - I can disable each drive via AD users/computers-->manage computer (one
    at a time)-->disable floppy device. This is very time consuming because
    I can't manage multiple computers at a time and we are talking about
    thousands of boxes.

    I was thinking maybe a WMI script might do it but I'm a neopyte in that
    area so I'm not sure. Any ideas?

    Best Regards,
    sakaba

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