Floppy drive still accessible, when disabled with Storage Device Control Policy

  • 7009534
  • 09-Oct-2011
  • 30-Apr-2012

Environment

Novell ZENworks 11 Configuration Management Support Pack 1 - ZCM 11 SP1
Novell ZENworks 11 Endpoint Security Management

Situation

ZCM 11.1 - Floppy drive is still visible, when a Storage Device Control Policy is in effect, which should disable it. 

Clicking on the icon for the floppy in Explorer gives the message "please insert disk into drive A:"

Resolution

The policy is working; the floppy drive is disabled, no data can be read or written

Additional Information

Only the icon is displayed; the message from Windows is misleading.

See TID 7008315 Unable to disable floppy drive with Storage Device Control Policy for a problem that can occur with ZCM 11.0