Installation control

After you have installed Package Control and restarted Sublime, you can go ahead and use this function. Package Control can be accessed from the menu, but a much faster method is the Command Palette which has already been familiar to you. You can perform the steps in this guide using a different device.

However, if you use a different device, then the instructions in the guide will not exactly match the user interface that appears on the computer. The steps provided in this guide are intended for use in a test lab environment. This step-by-step guide is not meant to be used to deploy Windows Server features without accompanying documentation and should be used with discretion as a stand-alone document.

Restricting the devices that users can install reduces the risk of data theft and reduces the cost of support. It is more difficult for users to make unauthorized copies of company data if users' computers cannot install unapproved devices that support removable media. For example, if users cannot install a USB thumb-drive device, they cannot download copies of company data onto a removable storage.

This benefit cannot eliminate data theft, but it creates another barrier to unauthorized removal of data. You can ensure that users install only those devices that your technical support team is trained and equipped to support. This benefit reduces support costs and user confusion.

The scenarios presented in this guide illustrate how you can control device installation and usage on the computers that you manage. The scenarios use Group Policy on a local machine to simplify using the procedures in a lab environment.

In an environment where you manage multiple client computers, you should apply these settings using Group Policy.. With Group Policy deployed by Active Directory, you can apply settings to all computers that are members of a domain or an organizational unit in a domain. For more information about how to use Group Policy to manage your client computers, see Group Policy at the Microsoft Web site.

In this scenario, the administrator wants to prevent users from installing any printers. In this scenario, the administrator allows standard users to install all printers while but preventing them from installing a specific one. In this scenario, you will combine what you learned from both scenario 1 and scenario 2.

The administrator wants to allow standard users to install only a specific printer while preventing the installation of all other printers. This is a more realistic scenario and brings you a step farther in understanding of the Device Installation Restrictions policies.

This scenario, although similar to scenario 2, brings another layer of complexity — how does device connectivity work in the PnP tree. The administrator wants to prevent standard users from installing a specific USB device. By the end of the scenario, you should understand the way devices are nested in layers under the PnP device connectivity tree.

In this scenario, combining all previous 4 scenarios, you will learn how to protect a machine from all unauthorized USB devices. The administrator wants to allow users to install only a small set of authorized USB devices while preventing any other USB device from being installed. This scenario builds on the policies and structure we introduced in the first 4 scenarios and therefore it is preferred to go over them first before attempting this scenario.

The following sections provide a brief overview of the core technologies discussed in this guide and give background information that is necessary to understand the scenarios. A device is a piece of hardware with which Windows interacts to perform some function, or in a more technical definition - it is a single instance of a hardware component with a unique representation in the Windows Plug and Play subsystem.

Windows can communicate with a device only through a piece of software called a device-driver also known as a driver. To install a driver, Windows detects the device, recognizes its type, and then finds the driver that matches that type. When Windows detects a device that has never been installed on the computer, the operating system queries the device to retrieve its list of device identification strings. A device usually has multiple device identification strings, which the device manufacturer assigns.

The same device identification strings are included in the. Windows chooses which driver package to install by matching the device identification strings retrieved from the device to those included with the driver packages.

Windows uses four types of identifiers to control device installation and configuration. You can use the Group Policy settings in Windows to specify which of these identifiers to allow or block. A device instance ID is a system-supplied device identification string that uniquely identifies a device in the system. Windows can use each string to match a device to a driver package. The strings range from the specific, matching a single make and model of a device, to the general, possibly applying to an entire class of devices.

There are two types of device identification strings: hardware IDs and compatible IDs. Hardware IDs are the identifiers that provide the exact match between a device and a driver package.

The first string in the list of hardware IDs is referred to as the device ID, because it matches the exact make, model, and revision of the device. The other hardware IDs in the list match the details of the device less exactly. For example, a hardware ID might identify the make and model of the device but not the specific revision. This scheme allows Windows to use a driver for a different revision of the device if the driver for the correct revision is not available.

Windows uses these identifiers to select a driver if the operating system cannot find a match with the device ID or any of the other hardware IDs. Compatible IDs are listed in the order of decreasing suitability. These strings are optional, and, when provided, they are very generic, such as Disk.

When a match is made using a compatible ID, you can typically use only the most basic functions of the device.

When you install a device, such as a printer, a USB storage device, or a keyboard, Windows searches for driver packages that match the device you are attempting to install. During this search, Windows assigns a "rank" to each driver package it discovers with at least one match to a hardware or compatible ID. The rank indicates how well the driver matches the device. Lower rank numbers indicate better matches between the driver and the device.

A rank of zero represents the best possible match. A match with the device ID to one in the driver package results in a lower better rank than a match to one of the other hardware IDs. Similarly, a match to a hardware ID results in a better rank than a match to any of the compatible IDs.

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