Policy

All Removable Storage: Allow direct access in remote sessions

Microsoft Windows

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All Removable Storage: Allow direct access in remote sessions
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

Computer
Category
System > Removable Storage Access
Supported on
At least Windows Vista

Supported OS tags: Windows10, Windows10RT, Windows11, Windows7, Windows8, Windows81, WindowsRT, WindowsRT81, WindowsServer2008, WindowsServer2012, WindowsServer2012R2, WindowsServer2016, WindowsVista

This policy setting grants normal users direct access to removable storage devices in remote sessions. If you enable this policy setting, remote users can open direct handles to removable storage devices in remote sessions. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, remote users cannot open direct handles to removable storage devices in remote sessions.

Internal name
Removable_Remote_Allow_Access
Policy ID
ee3ccf4fa0d1
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\RemovableStorageDevices
Value name
AllowRemoteDASD
REG_DWORD
HKLM
1
HKLM
0
Registry location
Type REG_DWORD · Computer
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\RemovableStorageDevices
Value name
AllowRemoteDASD
Hive
HKLM
Enabled value
1
Disabled value
0

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.