I want to disable USB ports remotely

[Guest]

I have been tasked with finding a way to disable the USB ports remotely. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Bruce Chambers]

Greetings --

Right-click My Computer > Manage, Right-click the Computer name >
Manage another computer > Device manager.

Bruce Chambers

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[Alexander Grech]

if you can afford buying a product you can use a program called device lock.

I have been tasked with finding a way to disable the USB ports remotely.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Guest]

Unfortunately, this is not something the organization is willing to throw money at, aside from my time/$$$. Fortunately, there are only about 10 workstations that currently require this task to be performed.

 

[Jason Hall [MSFT]]

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From: =?Utf-8?B?anJwcmVzdG9u?= <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: I want to disable USB ports remotely
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 07:51:03 -0700

Unfortunately, this is not something the organization is willing to throw

money at, aside from my time/$$$. Fortunately, there are only about 10
workstations that currently require this task to be performed.
Download the DevCon utility:
"FILE: DevCon Command Line Utility Alternative to Device Manager"
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=311272

To disable all usb on a machine:
devcon disable @usb\*

The DevCon utility can run against remote machines, but I was unable to get
this to work.
You could place the exe in a share and run it in a login script if you want
to.
Anyways, this is the tool that does it

(BTW - There is a registry key that controls the enabled/disabled status:
"DisableCount" in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\ROOT_HUB\4&1a1910ec&0\C
ontrol
Of course, the ID of the device will differ...it's returned by "devcon find
usb\*" however)

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