Disabling drive mapping on Server 2008

In previous post, I mentioned on how to disable drive mapping on Server 2003 via GPO. In this post, I will show on how to disable drive mapping on server 2008.

Description :
Disabling drive mapping on Server 2008

How To Do :

Access to GPMC, edit the intended GPO. Browse to Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host > Device and Resource Redirection
Click at ' Do not allow drive redirection '. That is our target setting
Right click at it, and press Edit
Choose Enabled, press Apply and OK.
You can double confirm the setting by checking at ICA-TCP and RDP-TCP Properties. They are now checked, and grayed out.
And this is the explanation by Microsoft on the GPO setting.

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