The group policy options that we’re finding on server 2008 for Win7 is to either block the application itself (in this case, Windows Media player) or to disable the drive altogether. So far the rumblings seem to lean towards disabling the dvd drive….

So unless there is a policy we are missing (totally possible!) we didn’t see any other way offhand on how to address this.

Thanks all for your responses so far – it’s been some good food for thought. ;)

You might be able to use Group Policy Software Restrictions for the drive/file extension to prevent the DVD formats from executing.

Haven’t ventured into AppLocker myself yet, but this might also be an option, depending on your needs.

Reviving the old LibNT list! ;) For those of you who have deployed Windows 7 to the public desktop, what are you doing about Win7 being able to play DVD’s natively? We don’t allow DVD’s to be watched on public computers currently due to patron complains regarding R movies / racy movie scenes where children could possibly view the screen but we don’t see a way to kill this off short of either 1) disabling the DVD drive 2) disabling Windows Media Player. Neither which seem like good options to us….

So what do you do? Allow the movies to be able to play and deal with the problem customers as they arise? Kill access to one or the other? Found some 3^rd party toy that disables it for you?

Thanks for your input! ;)

Thanks,

Gretchen Garcia

MCLD IT Services

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